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diff --git a/pod/perlfaq9.pod b/pod/perlfaq9.pod index 3da9bc1e4d..7fc0cdc3c1 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq9.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq9.pod @@ -77,7 +77,9 @@ stamp prepended. =head2 How do I remove HTML from a string? The most correct way (albeit not the fastest) is to use HTML::Parser -from CPAN (part of the HTML-Tree package on CPAN). +from CPAN (part of the HTML-Tree package on CPAN). Another correct +way is to use HTML::FormatText which not only removes HTML but also +attempts to do a little simple formatting of the resulting plain text. Many folks attempt a simple-minded regular expression approach, like C<s/E<lt>.*?E<gt>//g>, but that fails in many cases because the tags |