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Really depends on what you mean by 'extract the tags from it' - if you mean just strip the tags and leave the text then:

#!/usr/bin/perl
                                                                      
+          
use strict;
use warnings;
                                                                      
+          
my $the_file =<<EOH;
<html>
<head><title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Test Title</h1>
<p>This is a test</p></body></html>
EOH
                                                                      
+          
use HTML::Parser;
my $parser = HTML::Parser->new( text_h => [ sub { print shift; },"dtex
+t" ]);
                                                                      
+          
                                                                      
+          
$parser->parse($the_file);
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Will do what you want. Otherwise you had better explain in more detail.

Update: Okay - but it's not much more difficult to get the stuff into a variable - this is an adaptation to put each separate bit of text into an array element:

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
use strict;
use warnings;
 
my $the_file =<<EOH;
<html>
<head><title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Test Title</h1>
<p>This is a test</p></body></html>
EOH
 
use HTML::Parser;
my $parser = HTML::Parser->new( text_h => [ \&text_handler,"self,dtext
+" ],
                                start_document_h => [\&init, "self"] )
+;
 
                                                                      
+          
$parser->parse($the_file);
 
print @{$parser->{_private}->{text}};
 
sub init
{
   my ( $self ) = @_;
   $self->{_private}->{text} = [];
}
 
sub text_handler
{
    my ( $self, $text) = @_;
 
    push @{$self->{_private}->{text}}, $text;
}
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Maybe I should update The very old tutorial.

/J\

In reply to Re: How to remove html tags using HTML::Parser? by gellyfish
in thread How to remove html tags using HTML::Parser? by rtlm

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