Re: Stripping out HTML

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From: Heath Raftery
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 22:52

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In aus.computers.mac Cat <meow@purring.cat> wrote:
> Hi all

> A friend has a bunch of html files that she needs to strip all the code 
> out of, to leave plain text. Is there an OS X program that does this?

Another suggestion, which can be very handy in certain situations
where you literally want to strip the tags out leaving the text as it
was in the source file:

% cat myHTMLfile.html | perl -pe 's/<.+?>//g'

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From: Heath Raftery <hraftery@myrealbox.com>
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Subject: Re: Stripping out HTML
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