I want to change this HTML, weird mess (and the weird mark-up with the equals signs before the carriage returns, etc) into plain text.
I'd take a look at HTML::Strip or HTML::Parser and implement something using one
of those modules.
Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
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