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Asked: 2026-05-27T01:07:30+00:00

How do you strip (HTML) tags from a String in Flex 4.5 / 4.6?

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How do you strip (HTML) tags from a String in Flex 4.5 / 4.6?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t think there’s an inbuilt function to strip the tags like in php.

    However, you could use a regular expression to remove all text between < and >

    var r:RegExp=/<\/??.*?\/??>/g;

    I gotta run now, but if you could follow my line of thought:

    While the string tests positive for the regexp, replace the occurrence with an empty string

    That should remove all occurrences of this type:

    <tag>
<tag />
</tag>

    EDIT

    var h:String="<html><head><title>Hello World</title></head><body><h1>Hello</h1>Hey there, what's new?</body></html>";
var r:RegExp=/<\/??.*?\/??>/s; //s=dotall to match . to newline also


while(r.test(h)) {
    h=h.replace(r, ""); //Remember, strings are immutable, so you h.replace will not change the value of h, so you need to reassign the return to h
}

trace(h);

    OUTPUT:

    Hello WorldHelloHey there, what’s new?

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