avoid accidental #line directives (from Rick Delaney

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perlfaq9.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlfaq9.pod b/pod/perlfaq9.pod
index 2443fc9..7fc0cdc 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlfaq9.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq9.pod
@@ -77,7 +77,9 @@ stamp prepended.
 =head2 How do I remove HTML from a string?
 
 The most correct way (albeit not the fastest) is to use HTML::Parser
-from CPAN (part of the HTML-Tree package on CPAN).
+from CPAN (part of the HTML-Tree package on CPAN).  Another correct
+way is to use HTML::FormatText which not only removes HTML but also
+attempts to do a little simple formatting of the resulting plain text.
 
 Many folks attempt a simple-minded regular expression approach, like
 C<s/E<lt>.*?E<gt>//g>, but that fails in many cases because the tags
@@ -399,7 +401,7 @@ Sys::Hostname module (which is part of the standard perl distribution),
 you can probably try using something like this:
 
     use Sys::Hostname;
-    $address = sprintf('%s@%s', getpwuid($<), hostname);
+    $address = sprintf('%s@%s', scalar getpwuid($<), hostname);
 
 Company policies on mail address can mean that this generates addresses
 that the company's mail system will not accept, so you should ask for