string remove htmls

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I would like a regex to remove html tags and &nbsp, &quot etc from a string. The regex I have is to remove the html tags but not the others mentioned. I'm using .Net 4

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CODE:

     String result = Regex.Replace(blogText, @"<[^>]*>", String.Empty);

Before you proceed, take a look here: stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/… — Zruty
– Zruty, Commented May 19, 2011 at 15:58
Regex and HTML are never a good mix. Have a look @ stackoverflow.com/questions/5496704/strip-html-and-css-in-c — Michael Paulukonis
– Michael Paulukonis, Commented May 19, 2011 at 16:00
this could be easily done with HtmlAgilityPack, see Stripping all html tags with Html Agility Pack — Oleks
– Oleks, Commented May 19, 2011 at 16:16

Tom Gullen · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-19 16:00:02Z

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Don't use Regular Expressions, use the HTML Agility pack:

http://www.codeplex.com/htmlagilitypack

answered May 19, 2011 at 16:00

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Staffan Nöteberg · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-19 18:04:01Z

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If you want to build on what you what you already created, you can change it to the following:

String result = Regex.Replace(blogText, @"<[^>]*>|&\w+", String.Empty);

It means...

Either match tags as you defined...
...or match a & followed by at least one word character \w -- as many as possible.

Neither of these two work in all nasty cases, but usually it does.

answered May 19, 2011 at 18:04

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