From: Francisco Ortiz <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2006-05-06T02:56:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Noob Question - String Manipulation...

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I've been using

html_string.gsub(/<.*?>/,"")

for this. But it's always seemed more a "perl way" than a "ruby way".


On 5/5/06, Joseph Michaels <jmichaels@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>

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