From: Joseph Michaels <jmichaels@...>
Date: 2006-05-06T02:47:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Noob Question - String Manipulation...

On 5/5/06, Joe Cairns <joe.cairns@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, I'm pretty new to Ruby and am trying to absorb the "ruby way" of
> things as much as I can.  What's the best way to solve this problem:
>
> I have a string that contains html formating.  All I want is the plain
> text.
>

I don't know of any libraries offhand that can do this (CGI only has
escape/unescape), but it's fairly simple:

html_string.gsub(/<[^>]+>/, "")

Replacing that regex with something better, probably.