1HTML::FormatText(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation HTML::FormatText(3)
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6 HTML::FormatText - Format HTML as plaintext
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12 use HTML::TreeBuilder;
13 $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new->parse_file("test.html");
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16 $formatter = HTML::FormatText->new(leftmargin => 0, rightmargin => 50);
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22 my $string = HTML::FormatText->format_file(
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28 HTML::FormatText is a formatter that outputs plain latin1 text. All
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32 HTML::FormatText is built on HTML::Formatter and documentation for that
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50 See perlmodinstall for information and options on installing Perl
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54 No bugs have been reported.
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56 Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at
57 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=HTML-Format
58 <http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=HTML-Format>.
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61 The project homepage is http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Format
62 <http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Format>.
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64 The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive
65 Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit <http://www.perl.com/CPAN/> to find
66 a CPAN site near you, or see http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Format/
67 <http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Format/>.
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69 The development version lives at http://github.com/nigelm/html-format
70 <http://github.com/nigelm/html-format> and may be cloned from
71 git://github.com/nigelm/html-format.git <git://github.com/nigelm/html-
72 format.git>. Instead of sending patches, please fork this project
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76 · Nigel Metheringham <nigelm@cpan.org>
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78 · Sean M Burke <sburke@cpan.org>
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80 · Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
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83 This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Nigel Metheringham, 2002-2005
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86 This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
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