Converting HTML to Text

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  9 years ago

  by SpiritualInfant

  SpiritualInfant

  , United States

  Joined 9 years ago
  This is very helpful.  Additionally, most people will want to do more formatting to replace all linebreaks with a null string, and then to replace all html line breaks (<br>, etc.) with linebreaks so that the end result looks more like the original document.
  
  Finally, what regexp would you use to get rid of not only the html tags, but text between particular tags?  Specifically i am thinking of <title>Blah blah blah</title>.
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  6 years ago

  by SlickRick

  Rick Butler

  , United States

  Joined 6 years ago
  This code snippet ROCKS. EXACTLY what I needed. THANKS!
  
  
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  5 years ago

  by almino111

  almino malaza

  , United Kingdom

  Joined 5 years ago
  I agree it is really a life saver. if anyone wants a c# version, here it is.
  
  private string StripTags(string HTML)
          {
              // Removes tags from passed HTML           
              System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex objRegEx = new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("<[^>]*>");
  
              return objRegEx.Replace(HTML, "");
          }
  
  Thanks,
  
  Almino
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  5 years ago

  by YGR

  Yusuf Gani

  Jakarta, Indonesia

  Joined 5 years ago

  Almino,

   I have been given a task to convert an HTML string with tags to text. It appears as if this function will work, but it won't handle all the cases such as <br> and html coded spacing (&nbsp)

   Do you how to modify the existing code to handle this? Your help is appreciated. I am not good at all with regular expressions.  Thanks.

  - Raju

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