Strip HTLM

[jstreich]

Is there a premade Java function that can strip HTML from a string? Or do I have to use regular expressions?

 

[sedj]

There is no core API class that I know of that will do this (but could be wrong).
If your HTML can be parsed by an XML parser (ie XHTML), then the task would be easy. If not, then I guess you need to get busy with regex, or lots of String.indexOf() and susbtring() !

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[prosper]

//use regular expression
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
class test2
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
String input = "hello<p>1</p><logic:messagesPresent></logic:messagesPresent>";
String result = "";
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("<.+?>"); //"\u003C.+?\u003E"
Matcher matcher = p.matcher( input );
if (matcher.find())
{
result = matcher.replaceAll("");
System.out.println(result);
}

}
}

 

[ishnid]

Isn't that just the same as:

String input = "hello<p>1</p><logic:messagesPresent></logic:messagesPresent>";
String result = input.replaceAll( "<.+?>", "" );
System.out.println( result );

?

 

[prosper]

yes, your statements is much shorter but your statements do not return(boolean) if replacement has been performed