in reply to HTML Matching

your code fails with tags that span multiple lines, you should use something like: 
$/ = undef;
$_ = <STDIN>;
s/<[^>]+?>//mg;
print;

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Re: Re: HTML Matching
by autark (Friar) on Nov 19, 2000 at 01:24 UTC
    But his regexp does not contain neither ^ nor $, so what good will /m do ?

    His choice of character class [^>] matches anything _except_ the '>' character, that includes newlines.

    Autark.

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