Regex to remove all tags from a web page

[xavier.bury at clearstream.com]

Hi Alex

Since i've had crashes with regex with big files, and since it can't 
handle line breaks which
happen only too often within html code, i used offsets(). 

When i wrote the discreteBrowser, it was the ONLY reliable method to get 
the html tidy or
out... 

put 0 into a
repeat
  put offset("<", txt, a) into a
  if a < 1 then exit repeat
  put offset(">",txt,a+1) into b
  delete char a to b of txt
end repeat

or something like that. It's quick and infallible... 

cheers
Xavier
http://monsieurx.com/taoo


use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 31/10/2005 12:19:43:

> Hi all,
> 
> I searched the list archive and the net for a regex that would allow 
> to retrieve the meaningful text from any web page, stripping all html 
> tags, extra code, etc. but I did not find something really 
> convincing :-(
> Any help would be much appreciated :-)
> 
> PS. I don't want to use "set the htmlText/get text" using a field: 
> this way crashes Rev unpredictably when doing batch processing.
> 
> Best Regards from Paris,
> 
> Eric Chatonet.
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