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Answer 1

+2 A:

You can use a regular expression to strip the html tags, like:

string html = "Your html string";
string x = Regex.Replace(html,@"<(.|\n)*?>", string.Empty);

thedugas 2010-02-20 06:18:12

Here can I get the string excluding the html tags from the string in which html tags are there ?

Harikrishna 2010-02-20 06:20:07

And Regex is what ?

Harikrishna 2010-02-20 06:21:44

@thedugas Ok...It is the System.Text.RegularExpression.It works..Thanks...

Harikrishna 2010-02-20 06:33:24

Answer 2

+2 A:

Regular expressions aren't ideal for HTML. Regular expressions are for regular text, not HTML.

Use an HTML parser library such as the free, open source HTML Agility Pack. It comes bundled with an HTML-to-Text converter sample.

Judah Himango 2010-02-20 06:54:50

@Judah - Thanks for posting that, looks sweet - can't wait to check it out.

thedugas 2010-02-20 06:59:04

While true, in general, simply stripping tags ("things that begin with `<` and end with `>`") is quite suitable for a regex.

calmh 2010-02-20 13:29:35

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/11/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way.html

Judah Himango 2010-02-20 16:36:08

Finding the string excluding the html tags.