How to replace till the first occurrence of the HTML ... tag

Question

String tmp = "4 days ago <b>...</b> Jon founded the video <b>Yahoo</b>! and also";

I want to remove "4 days ago <b>...</b>" from the string.

Please let me know what is the best way to strip till the first tag.

You should use an [HTML parser](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2168610/which-html-parser-is-best). — assylias, May 08 '12 at 16:07
A regular expression, look at the api docs if you have questions post what you've tried. — rooftop, May 08 '12 at 16:07

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '12 at 16:09

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The better way is to use "real" HTML parser. But you can do it with regular expression as well. Try something like this:

String result = tmp.replaceFirst(".*?<b>.*?</b>", "");

answered May 08 '12 at 16:09

AlexR

This is a non-lazy one which might be more efficient: String result = tmp.replaceFirst("[^>]*>[^>]*>", ""); – dragon66 May 08 '12 at 19:09

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