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in reply to Re: Read text from HTML file and display it
in thread Read text from HTML file and display it

use warnings;
use strict;

  my $filename = $ARGV[0];
  my $ascii = system("lynx -dump $filename");

  print $ascii;

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Your $ascii variable will contain the return value, a number, from system which is not what you seem to be expecting. Backticks or qx() will return what normally goes to STDOUT.

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