Going with HTML Formattext, I ran the script and it works. It displays the text. Now I have a twofold problem: 1) One HTML had tables and the end results was partially good. The text was displayed but the data inside of the tables were not shown: Text TABLE NOT SHOWN 2) I want to save the text. So, I tried to following script. It worked (displayed the text but when I viewed the file afterwards, it was completly blank. Please help me obi-wan! Thanks, you guys are the best :) -Dave 
require HTML::TreeBuilder;
$tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new->parse_file("test.htm");

require HTML::FormatText;
$formatter = HTML::FormatText->new(leftmargin => 0, 
rightmargin => 50);
open FH, ">test.htm" or die $1;
print $formatter->format($tree);
close FH or die $1;

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In reply to HMTL Parser Problem by dduncan

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