Using the HTML::Strip Perl extension

Stripping HTML/XML/SGML

Example demonstrating how to use the HTML::Strip Perl extension for stripping HTML markup from text.

The results may not perfectly remove all HTML depending on the complexity of your markup.
strips HTML-like markup from text in a very quick and brutal manner. You can also use the extension
to strip XML or SGML from text.

Code

#!/usr/bin/perl
use HTML::Strip;
 
$raw_html = '<h3 class="post-title">To Be, rather than to Seem</h3><div>Esse Quam Videre--- To Be, rather than to Seem</div>';
 
my $hs = HTML::Strip->new();
my $clean_text = $hs->parse( $raw_html );
$hs->eof;
 
print "$clean_text";