Another Question... String Handling (Strip HTML)

[Robert Harrison-7]

OK, this isn't so stupid a question.

Now I've got the string I want. It's HTML tagged and I want to display
only the text, not the code; and I certainly don't want to execute the
code.

I can spend the next two hours or three hours writing a procedure that
looks for each occurance of  < and stips out every up to >, but it seems
there should already be something that strips HTML from a string.

Is there something in Cold Fusion that strips HTML from string, or does
someone have an easy strip routine??? I don't know which tags will be
used an what the content of those tags will be.

The < > seem it would be the most reliable key.

Thanks
 

Robert B. Harrison
Director of Interactive Services, Ext. 205

155 East Main Street
Smithtown, NY 11787
P [phone]
F [phone]
http://www.linx.com
 
 

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[Rob Mackenzie]

I'm sure I'll be the fourth or fifth answer here, but try one of the
following:

HTMLEditFormat() or HTMLCodeFormat()...no color coding, but escapes
characters...

Rob Mackenzie
Jera Technology

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Harrison [mailto:RobertH@...]
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:30 AM
To: NYCFUG
Subject: Another Question... String Handling (Strip HTML)

OK, this isn't so stupid a question.

Now I've got the string I want. It's HTML tagged and I want to display
only the text, not the code; and I certainly don't want to execute the
code.

I can spend the next two hours or three hours writing a procedure that
looks for each occurance of  < and stips out every up to >, but it seems
there should already be something that strips HTML from a string.

Is there something in Cold Fusion that strips HTML from string, or does
someone have an easy strip routine??? I don't know which tags will be
used an what the content of those tags will be.

The < > seem it would be the most reliable key.

Thanks
 

Robert B. Harrison
Director of Interactive Services, Ext. 205

155 East Main Street
Smithtown, NY 11787
P [phone]
F [phone]
http://www.linx.com
 
 



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[R.J.Siegel]

You can use CF list functions to get every other list item
using delimiters of "<>".

This of course would assume the html is correct and there are
no stray "<>"s in the actual text, but anything you write would
probably make the same assumptions.


Robert Harrison wrote:

> OK, this isn't so stupid a question.
>
> Now I've got the string I want. It's HTML tagged and I want to display
> only the text, not the code; and I certainly don't want to execute the
> code.
>
> I can spend the next two hours or three hours writing a procedure that
> looks for each occurance of  < and stips out every up to >, but it seems
> there should already be something that strips HTML from a string.
>
> Is there something in Cold Fusion that strips HTML from string, or does
> someone have an easy strip routine??? I don't know which tags will be
> used an what the content of those tags will be.
>
> The < > seem it would be the most reliable key.
>
> Thanks
>  
>
> Robert B. Harrison
> Director of Interactive Services, Ext. 205
>
> 155 East Main Street
> Smithtown, NY 11787
> P [phone]
> F [phone]
> http://www.linx.com
>  
>  
>
>

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[Cook, Scott]

I thought REReplaceNoCase would have been the answer.  I'm not a regular expression guy but you want to replace <xxx> and </xxx) with ''

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Mackenzie [mailto:rob@...]
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:43 AM
To: NYCFUG
Subject: RE: Another Question... String Handling (Strip HTML)


I'm sure I'll be the fourth or fifth answer here, but try one of the
following:

HTMLEditFormat() or HTMLCodeFormat()...no color coding, but escapes
characters...

Rob Mackenzie
Jera Technology

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Harrison [mailto:RobertH@...]
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:30 AM
To: NYCFUG
Subject: Another Question... String Handling (Strip HTML)

OK, this isn't so stupid a question.

Now I've got the string I want. It's HTML tagged and I want to display
only the text, not the code; and I certainly don't want to execute the
code.

I can spend the next two hours or three hours writing a procedure that
looks for each occurance of  < and stips out every up to >, but it seems
there should already be something that strips HTML from a string.

Is there something in Cold Fusion that strips HTML from string, or does
someone have an easy strip routine??? I don't know which tags will be
used an what the content of those tags will be.

The < > seem it would be the most reliable key.

Thanks
 

Robert B. Harrison
Director of Interactive Services, Ext. 205

155 East Main Street
Smithtown, NY 11787
P [phone]
F [phone]
http://www.linx.com
 
 





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[Robert Harrison-7]

OK. That was easier than I at first thought. This worked just fine:

        #REReplaceNoCase(myhtmlstring, "<[^>]*>","","ALL")#
 


Robert B. Harrison
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[Andrew Thielen]

The power of REGEX at your fingertips:

Mystringvar=REReplace(mystringvar,"<(.|\n)*?>","","ALL")

That should strip out all HTML only and leave everything else.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Harrison [mailto:RobertH@...]
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:30 AM
To: NYCFUG
Subject: Another Question... String Handling (Strip HTML)

OK, this isn't so stupid a question.

Now I've got the string I want. It's HTML tagged and I want to display
only the text, not the code; and I certainly don't want to execute the
code.

I can spend the next two hours or three hours writing a procedure that
looks for each occurance of  < and stips out every up to >, but it seems
there should already be something that strips HTML from a string.

Is there something in Cold Fusion that strips HTML from string, or does
someone have an easy strip routine??? I don't know which tags will be
used an what the content of those tags will be.

The < > seem it would be the most reliable key.

Thanks
 

Robert B. Harrison
Director of Interactive Services, Ext. 205

155 East Main Street
Smithtown, NY 11787
P [phone]
F [phone]
http://www.linx.com
 
 



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[Cook, Scott]

Google is your friend

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/printthread.php?t=146096

REReplaceNoCase(message,"<[^>]*>","","ALL")

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Harrison [mailto:RobertH@...]
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:30 AM
To: NYCFUG
Subject: Another Question... String Handling (Strip HTML)


OK, this isn't so stupid a question.

Now I've got the string I want. It's HTML tagged and I want to display
only the text, not the code; and I certainly don't want to execute the
code.

I can spend the next two hours or three hours writing a procedure that
looks for each occurance of  < and stips out every up to >, but it seems
there should already be something that strips HTML from a string.

Is there something in Cold Fusion that strips HTML from string, or does
someone have an easy strip routine??? I don't know which tags will be
used an what the content of those tags will be.

The < > seem it would be the most reliable key.

Thanks
 

Robert B. Harrison
Director of Interactive Services, Ext. 205

155 East Main Street
Smithtown, NY 11787
P [phone]
F [phone]
http://www.linx.com
 
 



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[Cook, Scott]

Come on one more, see if I can go 3 for 3 ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Harrison [mailto:RobertH@...]
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:51 AM
To: NYCFUG
Subject: RE: Another Question... String Handling (Strip HTML)


OK. That was easier than I at first thought. This worked just fine:

        #REReplaceNoCase(myhtmlstring, "<[^>]*>","","ALL")#
 


Robert B. Harrison
Director of Interactive Services, Ext. 205

155 East Main Street
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[Andrew Thielen]

Yeah that's a better regex for the task. Actually one more change should
improve the efficiency a bit:

"<[^>]+>"

*=occurs zero or more times
+=occurs one or more times

-----Original Message-----
From: Cook, Scott [mailto:scott.cook@...]
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:53 AM
To: NYCFUG
Subject: RE: Another Question... String Handling (Strip HTML)

Google is your friend

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/printthread.php?t=146096

REReplaceNoCase(message,"<[^>]*>","","ALL")

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Harrison [mailto:RobertH@...]
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:30 AM
To: NYCFUG
Subject: Another Question... String Handling (Strip HTML)


OK, this isn't so stupid a question.

Now I've got the string I want. It's HTML tagged and I want to display
only the text, not the code; and I certainly don't want to execute the
code.

I can spend the next two hours or three hours writing a procedure that
looks for each occurance of  < and stips out every up to >, but it seems
there should already be something that strips HTML from a string.

Is there something in Cold Fusion that strips HTML from string, or does
someone have an easy strip routine??? I don't know which tags will be
used an what the content of those tags will be.

The < > seem it would be the most reliable key.

Thanks
 

Robert B. Harrison
Director of Interactive Services, Ext. 205

155 East Main Street
Smithtown, NY 11787
P [phone]
F [phone]
http://www.linx.com
 
 





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