Title: Remove any HTML
Submitter: Robert Dettmann (other recipes)
Last Updated: 2001/08/02
Version no: 1.0
Category: Networking

Description:

This RegExp removes any pure HTML and decoded HTML to filter out content only.

Usage: Text Source

$OnlyContent =~ s{<([^>])+>|&([^;])+;}{}gsx;

The license for this recipe is available here.

Discussion:

My own Web Authoring tool stores filtered HTML from MS-Word 2002 in a SQL Server 2000 Database. For listings in my search engines i need a short textual description from begin of HTML-content.