hi, Monks:
I am trying to use a perl script to simulate a browser.
I did make use of LWP and HTTP::Request and HTTP::Response,
now, I need to remove html tags from the response's content.
one way I have tried is to use lynx dump switch:
like:
...
open (FILE,">tmp.html");
print FILE $response->content;
$text = `lynx -dump tmp.html`;
print $text;
...

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but this method need to use a tmp file.
my question is:
Is there (there certainly are)
any other way to get rid of the tags?
I mean If I don't want use a tmp file, or If
I don't want to use the "lynx".

In reply to how to remove html tags by cs202083

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