According to perl.com, I should use HTML::Parse to strip HTML from a string (not the regex I had been using, which caused problems under some configurations). I have read the documentation for HTML::Parse and have tried experimenting with a bit of code, but I can't get it to work for me... 
use HTML::Parse;
$_[0] = parse_html($_[0]);
$_[0]->delete

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All I want to do is remove any HTML tags from $_[0] - can anyone help with this?

 

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Jonathan M. Hollin
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2001-03-03 Edit by Corion : Changed title so it dosen't clash with the module.

In reply to Getting HTML::Parse to work (was: HTML::Parse) by DarkBlue

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