ok, it's a little brutal, and expecially written to convert letters which belong to italian language, but it's fast, recognises images and scripts and after all it dumps plain ASCII!!! enjoy! SiG
#!/usr/bin/perl
# convert HTML to plain ASCII in a moment!
# ok, lynks does it better, but this is less than 1k!!!
# enjoy!
# baginov@hotmail.com
print "Input File:\n";
$input_file = <STDIN>;
chop($input_file);
open (INF,"< $input_file");
$input_file=~ s/\.htm?./\.txt/;
open (OUF,"> $input_file");
while ($riga=<INF>)
{
$riga =~ s/<.>//g;
$riga =~ s/<\/.>//g;
$riga =~ s/<\/(script|SCRIPT)>/\-\-\-\-\- Script \-\-\-\-\-\n/g;
$riga =~ s/<\/.+>//g;
$riga =~ s/<(img|IMG).+>/\n-----------\n\|  Image  \|\n-----------\n/g
+;
$riga =~ s/<(script|SCRIPT).+>/\-\-\-\-\- Script \-\-\-\-\-/g;
$riga =~ s/<br>/\n/g;
$riga =~ s/<.+>//g;
$riga =~ s/\&nbsp;/ /g;
$riga =~ s/\&egrave;/e\'/g;
$riga =~ s/\&agrave;/a\'/g;
$riga =~ s/\&ugrave;/u\'/g;
$riga =~ s/\&igrave;/i\'/g;
$riga =~ s/\&eacute;/e\'/g;
$riga =~ s/\&iacute;/i\'/g;
$riga =~ s/\&ograve;/o\'/g;
$riga =~ s/\&lt;/</g;
$riga =~ s/\&quot;/\"/g;
print OUF $riga;
}
close (INF);
close (OUF);

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