[TriLUG] simple regular expression to strip HTML?

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Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know of a quick-and-dirty regular expression that will strip
> simple HTML tags?  I'm not looking for something that is necessarily
> 100% safe/tested, but something reasonable that will work.  It needs to
> use the regular C regexp set of calls, not Perl extensions.
> 
> For example:  "<em>Bold</em> type" should substitute to "Bold type"

perlish:  s:<[/a-z][^>]*>::gi;
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