remove html tags from text

Jim Ault JimAultWins at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 8 18:45:16 EDT 2006


> I did not know replaceText command could use wildcard as an argument ...
> it is fantastic. 

The replaceText function actually uses RegEx, not wildcards.  There is a
major difference.

Filter command -- uses wild cards

ReplaceText, MatchText, MatchChunk functions -- use RegEx


Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On 9/8/06 1:42 PM, "paolo mazza" <paolo.mazza at neol.it> wrote:

> You are great ... so many solutions.
> 
> I wuold go for ... (I did not know replaceText command could use wildcard)
> ... it is fantastic.
> I have to say documentation does not mention this.
> 
> function stsStripHTML what
>   put replaceText(what,"<.*?>","") into noHTML
>   return noHTML
> end stsStripHTML
> 
> I did not know replaceText command could use wildcard as an argument ...
> it is fantastic.
> I have to say documentation does not mention this.
> 
> I am really impressed by your smartness.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Paolo Mazza
> 





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