Personally, I like japhy's answer, but since you are wanting to know how to do it with HTML::Parser, here is yet another way. 
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::Parser;

# get the content of the web page
my $content = get("http://www.google.com/");

# instaniate a new parser and let it crunch our data
my @lines;
my $parser = new MyParser;
$parser->parse($content);

{
    package MyParser;
    use base qw(HTML::Parser);

    # this method supplies the text, no tags :)
    sub text {
        my ($self, $origtext) = @_;
        print $origtext, "\n";
    }
}

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Unfortunately, this is the OLD way to use HTML::Parser, I haven't learned the new way yet (bad jeffa!). But this should get you going.

UPDATE: If you want to store the contents in a variable, just add 

my $stripped_html;    # or whatever you wanna call it

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Then, inside the text subroutine replace the print line with: 
$stripped_html .= $origtext;

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I would recommend using an array instead, however: 
my @stripped_html;

#and inside &text
push(@stripped_html, $origtext);

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UPDATE: UPDATE: just do what merlyn says :)

Jeff 

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In reply to (jeffa) Re: How to get HTML::Parser to return a line of parsed text by jeffa
in thread How to get HTML::Parser to return a line of parsed text by donfreenut

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