Perl: Strip URLs from text ?

I'm very new to perl, and I need to strip out URLs from a piece of text.
So, the text might be for example :

Code:

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This is <a href="something.blah?dfoj_sdjf=something">a test</a> blah!

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And I would need it to simply say "This is a test".
I'd have no problem doing this in VB, but christ, in perl I've not a clue really....

Let's say your string is string 1.

string1 = "This is <a href="something.blah?dfoj_sdjf=something">a test</a> blah!"



POSN1 = index(string1,"<a") will return the position of "<a href"

POSN2 = index(string1,">",POSN1) will return the position of it's closing tag.

then use

substr (string1,POSN1,POSN2-POSN1,"")

and you should get the string without the hyperlink.

Then run it again for the </a> tag.