Regex to remove all tags from a web page

[Alex Tweedly]

Eric Chatonet wrote:

> 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.
>
I suspect this will be "not really convincing" :-)

Just removing tags should be

>     put  "<[^><]*>" into tRex
>    
>     put replacetext(fld "in", tRex, "") into fld "out"

That assumes the html has no "<" or ">" , and is generally well-formed.

That seems too simple - so it can't be convincing :-)


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