I agree that you are probably better off using HTML::Entities
The code you have should work for what you are trying to do.
The following snippet works as expected on your test line.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $line = q{<br></pre><br><img src=http://blah.microsoft.com
+/analog_sc/bp/_lessons_learned/2788_1.jpg><br><br><br><im
+g};
print qq{LINE:[$line]\n};
tagremover( $line );
print qq{LINE:[$line]\n};
sub tagremover {
$_[0] =~ s/</</g;
$_[0] =~ s/>/>/g;
}
Outputs:
LINE:[<br></pre><br><img src=http://blah.microsoft.com/analog
+_sc/bp/_lessons_learned/2788_1.jpg><br><br><br><img]
LINE:[<br></pre><br><img src=http://blah.microsoft.com/analog_sc/bp/_l
+essons_learned/2788_1.jpg><br><br><br><img]
What are you getting in your $description var after the replacement? DOes your data have Newlines in it?
Wonko
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