Strip All HTML Tags from a String by Regular Expression

In one of my functionality, I needed to strip all HTML tags from a String and then I need to show it to User. So, I have used Regular Expression for that. Following is the example of it.

Procedure:

1. Retrieve All HTML Tags using <(.|\n)*?> Pattern
2. Replace them with Empty String and return the Result.

Example 1:

Private Function StripHTML(ByVal htmlString As String) As String

‘”<(.|\n)*?>” -> This pattern Matches everything found inside html tags;

‘”(.|\n)” -> Look for any character or a new line

‘”*?” -> 0 or more occurrences, and make a non-greedy search meaning

‘That the match will stop at the first available ‘>’ it sees, and not at the last one

Dim Pattern As String = “<(.|\n)*?>”

Return Regex.Replace(htmlString, Pattern, String.Empty)

End Function

Example 2:

You can just use one line also as following

Regex.Replace(textBox1.Text,@”<(.|\n)*?>”,”");

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