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Asked: 2026-05-15T12:01:26+00:00

I would like to understand what the following code is doing. This logic is

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I would like to understand what the following code is doing. This logic is part of a routine to strip out html from the body of an email message.

mBBSREgEx.IgnoreCase = True
mBBSREgEx.Global = True
mBBSREgEx.Pattern = "<[^>]*>"
sResult = mBBSREgEx.Replace(sResult, "")

Thank you,
Jim

Ok, if I wanted to change the routine to strip out tags constructed like [b]Hello[/b] instead of the existing one that strils out “<” and “>” tags, how would I change the pattern?

Would this work? 

mBBSREgEx.Pattern = "\[[^\]]*\]"

Thanks,
Jim

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    It replaces all tags with empty strings.

    It looks for an opening <, then takes as many characters as possible that are not >, then it finds a closing >. Finally, it replaces all of that (everything from < to >) with an empty string, effectively stripping out HTML tags.

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