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HTML stripper (See related posts)

// description of your code here

str = <<HTML_TEXT
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<body>
  <h1>Application error</h1>
  <p>Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like 
in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html</p>
</body>
</html>
HTML_TEXT

puts str.gsub(/<\/?[^>]*>/, "")
to ruby html strip by minofare on Tue Jan 15 20:03:32 +0000 2008

Comments on this post

jamiew posts on Jan 15, 2008 at 21:11
I also use this from time to time

class String
  def strip_html(allowed = ['a','img','p','br','i','b','u','ul','li'])
        str = self.strip || ''
        str.gsub(/<(\/|\s)*[^(#{allowed.join('|') << '|\/'})][^>]*>/,'')
  end
end

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