in reply to output HTML table

I've always found: 

my $text = `lynx -dump $htmlfile`;

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to work quite well.

/J\

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Re^2: output HTML table
by lima1 (Curate) on Aug 11, 2006 at 12:21 UTC
    or 
    my $text = `links -dump $htmlfile`;

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    (in my experience slightly better). Third alternative: 
    my $text = `html2text $htmlfile`;

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    It is not a trivial task to convert a HTML file to a textfile.
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