This code will remove all html tags.
Test code
my $value = qq(<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Document?</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
+">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
 Some Text.
 <img
 src="/super/long/path/string/that/the/author/puts/on/a/separate/line.
+jpg"
 alt="missing image"
>
</body>
</html>);
$value =~ s/<(([^ >]|\n|\s\w)*)>/ /gso;

print $value;

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What I like to do is just escape some parts to make the form text harmless and characters viewable when printed in the browser.
Example code
        $value =~ s{&}{&amp;}gso;
        $value =~ s{"}{&quot;}gso;
        $value =~ s{  }{ \&nbsp;}gso;
        $value =~ s{<}{&lt;}gso;
        $value =~ s{>}{&gt;}gso;
        $value =~ s{\)}{&#41;}gso;
        $value =~ s{\(}{&#40;}gso;
        $value =~ s{\t}{ \&nbsp; \&nbsp; \&nbsp;}gso;
        $value =~ s{\n}{<br>}gso;
        print $value;

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In reply to Re: Code does Remove Html by SFLEX
in thread Code does Remove Html by Anonymous Monk

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