NAME
PerlIO::via::StripHTML - PerlIO layer to strip HTML tags from an input file
SYNOPSIS
open
my
$file
,
'<:via(StripHTML)'
,
'foo.html'
or
die
"Can't open foo.html: $!\n"
;
DESCRIPTION
This package implements a PerlIO layer, for reading files only. It strips HTML tags from the input, leaving only plain text. This can be useful, for example, to find something in the text of a HTML page.
BUGS
This is only a preliminary version.
SEE ALSO
PerlIO::via
AUTHOR
Copyright (c) 2002 Rafael Garcia-Suarez. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
The HTML stripping code was borrowed from the eg/htext script in the HTML-Parser
distribution.