string remove htmls

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);

Before you proceed, take a look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags — Zruty, May 19 '11 at 15:58
Regex and HTML are never a good mix. Have a look @ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5496704/strip-html-and-css-in-c — Michael Paulukonis, May 19 '11 at 16:00
this could be easily done with HtmlAgilityPack, see [Stripping all html tags with Html Agility Pack](http://stackoverflow.com/q/3140919/102112) — Oleks, May 19 '11 at 16:16

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 19 '11 at 16:00

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Don't use Regular Expressions, use the HTML Agility pack:

http://www.codeplex.com/htmlagilitypack

answered May 19 '11 at 16:00

Tom Gullen

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 19 '11 at 18:04

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...

Either match tags as you defined...
...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.

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