Question

I have a string like

some text <p>any text</p>

from which I need to remove the part

<p>any text</p>

and as a result, get the string

some text

I found some sample code from a tutorial to work with strings, but I don’t understand how it works. I’m a newbie in coding and it’s hard because I don’t know English.

private String description;

public void setDescription(String description) {
    this.description = description;
    if (description.contains("<p>")) {
        String musor  = description.substring(description.indexOf("<p>"));
        String cleanUp = musor.substring(0, musor.indexOf("</p>")+1);
        musor = musor.substring(musor.indexOf("<p>"));
        this.description = this.description.replace(cleanUp, "");
    }
}

Answer 1

You can use regular expressions which can do the trick.

String regexp = "<p>.*?</p>";
String replace = "";
myString.replaceAll(regexp, replace);

Replaces all <p>-tags and their contents with ​. (See also http://www.regular-expressions.info/.)

I guess that there are a lot of libraries, which can do the same or even more.