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I found a regular expression that will strip my string of every html tag...

code:

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var stripped = htmlStr.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig,"");

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Well, I also want it to strip every thing between parentheses, square brackets, and replace "&#160;" with a space.

It would be really cool if you could explain how to do this as well, because the stuff in the above code after "replace" confuses me. I have no idea how that's working.

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Originally posted by macgyver08
I found a regular expression that will strip my string of every html tag...

code:

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var stripped = htmlStr.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig,"");

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Well, I also want it to strip every thing between parentheses, square brackets, and replace "&#160;" with a space.

It would be really cool if you could explain how to do this as well, because the stuff in the above code after "replace" confuses me. I have no idea how that's working.

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the replace function is using Regular Expressions, in the format of /pattern/modifiers. In this example, everything between the "/"s are the characters to replace and the ig are the modifiers (in this case, i for case insensitive and g for global [replaces all instances, not just the first]).

So, you can modify everything between the /'s to strip whatever character you want.

As for replacing "&#160" with a space, just use another replace function...

javascript code:

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var stripped = htmlStr.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig,"");
stripped = stripped.replace(/&#160/g," ");

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Thanks a lot!