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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 5, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strinpping-html-using-regexp/167215 "2009-05-05T16:38:01Z")\
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**Author:**  [@arunvoip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arunvoip)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strinpping-html-using-regexp/167215/1 "2009-05-05T16:38:01Z")
Hi,
I want to remove the all html tags in a string using regexp. But the
main thing is I dont want to use gsub or any other methods for it. I
want pure regexp to fetch the data other than the html tags. Can anybody
please give me the code.
Thanks
Arun
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**Author:**  [@arunvoip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arunvoip)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strinpping-html-using-regexp/167215/2 "2009-05-05T16:51:15Z")
Arun K. wrote:
> Hi,
> But the
> main thing is I dont want to use gsub or any other methods for it.
In what programming language can you use a regex to find a match without
calling a method?
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**Author:**  [@arunvoip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arunvoip)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 4:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strinpping-html-using-regexp/167215/3 "2009-05-05T16:41:17Z")
Arun K. schrieb:
> Hi,
> I want to remove the all html tags in a string using regexp. But the
> main thing is I dont want to use gsub or any other methods for it. I
> want pure regexp to fetch the data other than the html tags. Can anybody
> please give me the code.
>
> Thanks
> Arun
1. regular expressions are not good for stripping html code, use a HTML
Parser
(Nokogiri, Hpricot, …)
2. if you want to use regexp, why not gsub? o\_O what do you mean by
“pure
regexp”? gsub can strip content based on regular expressions. I don’t
get your
point here.
3. …
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**Author:**  [@arunvoip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arunvoip)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strinpping-html-using-regexp/167215/4 "2009-05-05T23:06:57Z")
On May 5, 10:38 am, Arun K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to remove the all html tags in a string using regexp.
No, you really really don’t. Trust me.
> I want pure regexp to fetch the data other than the html tags.
If you had said “pure XPath”, then that would make sense.
– Mark.
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**Author:**  [@arunvoip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arunvoip)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 12:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strinpping-html-using-regexp/167215/5 "2009-05-06T00:15:08Z")
Mark T. wrote:
> On May 5, 10:38�am, Arun K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > � �I want to remove the all html tags in a string using regexp.
>
> No, you really really don’t. Trust me.
Yes, yes, he really does. This is an ongoing line of questioning dating
back several weeks.