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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 2, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hpricot-parse-html/124824 "2008-01-02T22:13:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:**  [@flnative](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/flnative)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hpricot-parse-html/124824/1 "2008-01-02T22:13:08Z")
hi @all
I would like to parse html code and remove all tags that starts with
How can I remove this tags with regex? I used the gsub! function to
manipulate the string.
Thanks for helping…
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**Author:**  [@flnative](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/flnative)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 4:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hpricot-parse-html/124824/2 "2008-01-03T04:38:22Z")
Try this…
C:\temp\>irb
irb(main):001:0\> mystring = “xxx yy zz”
=\> “xxx yy zz”
irb(main):002:0\> mystring.gsub(//,’’)
=\> “xxx yy zz”
Regards,
Jim
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**Author:**  [@flnative](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/flnative)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 11:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hpricot-parse-html/124824/3 "2008-01-03T11:37:39Z")
You should also process the \n, \r char.
So I think the regex should be “”.
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**Author:**  [@flnative](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/flnative)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hpricot-parse-html/124824/4 "2008-01-03T18:52:28Z")
On Jan 3, 2008 4:37 AM, sishen [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> You should also process the \n, \r char.
>
> So I think the regex should be “”.
Don’t forget about the multiline option, it’s easy, just stick an ‘m’
after the regexp.
Daniel Brumbaugh K.