Connotea Ian, today

Look at that focus! The dedication!

• New hardware is here


• Code is all set up


• Database files are being moved over now


• Testing is imminent


• don't lose hope

Strip HTML tags from a string, Ruby edition

Get Hpricot.

require 'hpricot'
page = Hpricot("<b>some marked up <i>text</i></b>")
puts page.to_plain_text

Interestingly the Hpricot FAQ says:

Q: How do I strip all HTML tags from a page?
A: Use regex replace!
A2: The regex is ok, but will break in some cases, even with valid html. Try the to_plain_text or inner_text methods instead.

Strip HTML tags from a string, Python edition

Obtain Beautiful Soup.

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

''.join(BeautifulSoup(page).findAll(text=True))

where 'page' is your string of text and HTML.

I'm not a pythonista, there might be a nicer way of doing it (Beautiful Soup is a lot of overhead). Might want to expand on this a bit to make sure spacing is handled OK, you can keep certain tags etc. etc. Feel free to post corrections or better suggestions in the comments.

Just don't use one line <(?:.*?)> regular expressions. No, really.