What regular expression should be used for HTML tags?

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I want to replace all the HTML tags in string with space. What regular expression should I use for that?

Input:

HTML

<td align="right"><br></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Hi [FNm] [LNm]:<br><br>Thanks for downloading.

Output:

Hi [FNm] [LNm]: Thanks for downloading.

Help me to design regular expression for this.

C#

string input='<td align="right"><br></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Hi [FNm] [LNm]:<br><br>Thanks for downloading.";

string atr=Regex.Replace(input,[what regex pattern should I use]," ");

Also I want to remove '\n', '\r' n all of those keywords that are used with HTML

Posted 1-Apr-14 1:22am

Ami_Modi

Updated 1-Apr-14 18:45pm

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Ami_Modi 1-Apr-14 7:28am

Thanks Andre for editing my question. But can you please help me with solution

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Solution 1

visit here...

Some Regular Expressions Examples[^]

Posted 1-Apr-14 1:28am

Rakesh Meel

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Thomas Daniels · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-01T01:41:00

Solution 2

Try this:

C#

string atr = Regex.Replace(input, "</?.+?>", " ");

This replaces every tag (start tags and end tags) with a space.

Posted 1-Apr-14 1:41am

Thomas Daniels

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Ami_Modi 1-Apr-14 7:45am

Its not happening so. in fact it is placing space between every character

Thomas Daniels 1-Apr-14 7:47am

Yes, I'm sorry. I updated my answer. The reason was that the answer editor thought that it was a HTML tag, and it was not displayed. Now it is displayed. Try it again.

Ami_Modi 1-Apr-14 8:01am

Thank you very much.. But my question is that is there any exception for this regex?

Thomas Daniels 1-Apr-14 8:09am

No, it removes all tags. Note that the HTML must be well-formed, otherwise it wouldn't work.

Ami_Modi · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-01T06:13:00

Solution 3

One more answer I got. If anybody referring this question can try this:

"<[^>]*>"

Posted 1-Apr-14 6:13am

Ami_Modi