Question

I have web pages that contain text areas with HTML inside of them. For example here’s a sample of text:

var a = "some text follows<p><p>Give the following test text:</p>
<pre>abc {<br />    int size;<br />    String name;<br />    Test ( String name, int size ) {<br />        this.name = name;<br />        this.size = size;<br />    }<br>"

I want to set the META description for my web pages with the text above after the HTML has been removed.

Does anyone have any idea how I can remove the HTML from text. I don’t need have anything fancy. Maybe even just removing everything that’s within and including the angle brackets would do the trick?

Answer 1

This may help:

var a = "some text follows<p><p>Give the following test text:</p>"

var newString = Regex.Replace(a, @"<(.|\n)*?>", string.Empty);

Result

some text followsGive the following test text: