Use regular expression to remove tag

Question

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RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

how can I replace everything in between < > and the tag itself with a space?

Example:

<span class="bold">asdfsdfsda<br />sadfsdfsdf</span>

Output:

 asdfsdfsda sadfsdfsdf 

Answer 1

DON'T PARSE HTML with regex. If this in a onetime controlled situation, then this would do:

Here it is in ruby. Change it based upon your tool.

myline = '<span class="bold">asdfsdfsda<br />sadfsdfsdf</span>'
myline.gsub(/<[^<]*>/," ")