I pipe my alerts to a perl script

below is the stripping html portion - the main message is $body here :

right below here i strip out html

$body =~ s{ <! # comments begin with a `<!' # followed by 0 or more comments;

(.*?)               # this is actually to eat up comments in non 
                    # random places

 (                  # not suppose to have any white space here

                    # just a quick start; 
  --                # each comment starts with a `--'
    .*?             # and includes all text up to and including
  --                # the *next* occurrence of `--'
    \s*             # and may have trailing while space
                    #   (albeit not leading white space XXX)
 )+                 # repetire ad libitum  XXX should be * not +
(.*?)               # trailing non comment text

> # up to a `>' }{ if ($1 || $3) { # this silliness for embedded comments in tags "<!$1 $3>"; } }gesx; # mutate into nada, nothing, and niente

$body =~ s{ < # opening angle bracket

(?:                 # Non-backreffing grouping paren
     [^>'"] *       # 0 or more things that are neither > nor ' nor "
        |           #    or else
     ".*?"          # a section between double quotes (stingy match)
        |           #    or else
     '.*?'          # a section between single quotes (stingy match)
) +                 # repetire ad libitum
                    #  hm.... are null tags <> legal? XXX

> # closing angle bracket }{}gsx; # mutate into nada, nothing, and niente

$body =~ s{ ( & # an entity starts with a semicolon ( \x23\d+ # and is either a pound (#) and numbers | # or else \w+ # has alphanumunders up to a semi )
;? # a semi terminates AS DOES ANYTHING ELSE (XXX) ) } {

$entity{$2}        # if it's a known entity use that
    ||             #   but otherwise
    $1             # leave what we'd found; NO WARNINGS (XXX)

}gex; # execute replacement -- that's code not a string

From: James Wade [mailto:jkwade at futurefrontiers.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 12:34 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Paging -- HTML to Text

Can anyone point me to a good HTML to Text Converter?

I'm sending out pages and the incoming message is HTML,

but I want to send it out as text. I want to take all the HTML

imbedded in it out. I'm looking on the web, but I can't seem

to find anything that will allow me to pipe it through the command.

Thanks.James