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Convert HTML to plain-text

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Demonstrates how to convert HTML to plain-text.

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Perl
use chilkat();

# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$h2t = chilkat::CkHtmlToText->new();

# Set the HTML:

$html = "<html><body><p>This is a test.</p><blockquote>Here is text within a blockquote</blockquote></body></html>";

$plainText = $h2t->toText($html);

print $plainText . "\r\n";

# The output looks like this:

# This is a test.
# 
#     Here is text within a blockquote