regex question

[Bob Weiner]

I have a string which contains html tags and data. What regex patter will
capture the data without the tags?

For example
My new <a href="myHouse.com">home</a> is <B>very</B> nice!

should return:
My new
home
is
very nice!

Can this be done?

bob

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Hi bob,

The following 2 Regular Expressions both do the opposite of what you want.
It matches all substrings which begin with '<' and and with '>'. Therefore,
if you use it with Regex.Replace, and replace it with empty strings, it will
return the stripped content.

(?![^<]*)<[^>]*?>

<(?:.|\n)+?>

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Professional Numbskull

Show me your certification without works,
and I'll show my certification
*by* my works.

 

[Bob Weiner]

Thanks!

I'm going to have to play with them to understand.

bob

Hi bob,

The following 2 Regular Expressions both do the opposite of what you want.
It matches all substrings which begin with '<' and and with '>'.
Therefore, if you use it with Regex.Replace, and replace it with empty
strings, it will return the stripped content.

(?![^<]*)<[^>]*?>

<(?:.|\n)+?>

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Professional Numbskull

Show me your certification without works,
and I'll show my certification
*by* my works.

I have a string which contains html tags and data. What regex patter will
capture the data without the tags?

For example
My new <a href="myHouse.com">home</a> is <B>very</B> nice!

should return:
My new
home
is
very nice!

Can this be done?

bob

 

[jeremiah johnson]

String before =
"My new <a href=\"myHouse.com\">home</a> is <B>very</B> nice!";

String after =
Regex.replace(before, @"<(?:.|\n)+?>", "");

Try that.

Thanks!

I'm going to have to play with them to understand.

bob

(?![^<]*)<[^>]*?>

<(?:.|\n)+?>