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While I generally agree that HTML::Parser is a pain (the great flexibility leads to great complexity), for something like this, HTML::TreeBuilder is just the ticket. Three simple lines 
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new;
$tree->parse_file('foo.html');
$non_html = $tree->as_text();

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Should do the trick. This quarter's Perl Journal has a good article on it (the included docs need work)

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Re: Re: Strip HTML tags
by dvergin (Monsignor) on Feb 19, 2004 at 02:01 UTC
    Warning: This code strips out <anything> that is surrounded by <angle> <brackets>. It does not limit its action to true <html tags>.

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    "Perl is a mess and that's good because the
    problem space is also a mess.    " - Larry Wall

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