I'm trying to write something that converts HTML into nicely formatted
text.
My current solution:
use FileHandle;
$text = "<p>Hello World</p>";
$fh = FileHandle->new(">temp.txt")
or die ("Unable to write temporary file");
$fh->print($text);
$fh->close;
$fh->open("lynx -dump -stdin < temp.txt |")
or die ("Unable to run HTML parser");
$text = join "", <$fh>;
$fh->close;
print $text;
How can I improve it? I haven't really found anything on CPAN to do what I
want (there are "remove HTML tags" scripts and thing, but nothing with the
formatting power of lynx that I can see).
I'd like to avoid the intermediate file, too. The text will come from the
outside world, so I'd like to be safe while I'm processing it....
Cheers,
Ian
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