Question

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

Thanks

CODE:

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

Answer 1

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…

1. Either match tags as you defined…
2. …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.