Re: I want to save web pages as text rather than as HTML.

You need a true HTML parser to help you get to the particular nodes that you want. Very good write-up here: http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/02/parsing-html-with-perl-2.html

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Re^2: I want to save web pages as text rather than as HTML. by anautismobserver (Sexton) on Sep 06, 2019 at 22:14 UTC
I apologize for my ignorance. When I try to run the first "self-contained example" as written in the provided link, it produces no output (except for "Press any key to continue..."). When I replace the body of the script (starting with "my $re ="...) with the next code example (that uses "HTML::TokeParser::Simple;"), I get the error message "Can't locate HTML::TokeParser::Simple.pm in @INC" Could you please give me a code example that truly is self-contained, that reads (and parses) an HTML file and outputs it as a text file? Thank you.	[reply]
Re^3: I want to save web pages as text rather than as HTML. by Anonymous Monk on Sep 07, 2019 at 01:30 UTC
Could you please give me a code example that truly is self-contained, that reads (and parses) an HTML file and outputs it as a text file? Sure, go fish, strip HTML tags	[reply]