converting html to text with perl

Question

I have a bunch of html files and need to convert and format them to text with perl i.e somthing like <br/> will be interperted to \n

I found this perl module on cpan html::formattext it format the text well but if there is link it strip it , are there any option with HTML::FormatText to format the html as is to text but when there links like this

<a href="http://www.microsoft.com>http://www.microsoft.com</a>

i.e somthing like this :

<br /><b>Microsoft</b><br /><a href="http://www.microsoft.com>`

will be converted to:

microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com

Answer 1

Take a look at HTML::FormatText::WithLinks

Setting the after_link option to, say, " (%l)" will put the link in line after the anchor text. In your example you would get Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com).