C#•3y ago

✅ Remove tags from string

So if I have a string like this

This is a string with <color="red">different colors</color>. And some cool <shake>other effects</shake>

This is a string with <color="red">different colors</color>. And some cool <shake>other effects</shake>

How can I remove the tags from the string and leave the rest as is?

I was thinking of looking into the string and removing everything between

and

but I can't seem to find a solution that would do that.

Any suggestions?

Spectra•1/7/23, 5:26 AM

if you can use regex it's pretty easy.
Regex.Replace(inputString, "<.*?>", "");

johnrudyOP•1/7/23, 5:27 AM

oooh I wasn't aware regex was in c#

johnrudyOP•1/7/23, 5:27 AM

that's nice I'll try that. Thanks

Angius•1/7/23, 5:28 AM

Pretty much every language has some sort of regex support

Angius•1/7/23, 5:28 AM

But... what if the string is ?

Angius•1/7/23, 5:29 AM

What if it's ?

johnrudyOP•1/7/23, 5:30 AM

True. Might be situations where it's desired to have those within. But I think for now I can live without. I guess the string would need to have some escape string type deal.

Angius•1/7/23, 5:31 AM

One of the reasons you never really sanitize for HTML nowadays, you just escape it

Angius•1/7/23, 5:32 AM

Instead of stripping all s and the like, you just display it as

johnrudyOP•1/7/23, 5:32 AM

I'm not sanitizing html

johnrudyOP•1/7/23, 5:33 AM

Doing an dialog system that has text styling tags in it

Angius•1/7/23, 5:33 AM

You're looking at making some parser, then

Angius•1/7/23, 5:33 AM

Or using something existing like BBCode

johnrudyOP•1/7/23, 5:33 AM

Sorry, should've added that in the question.

johnrudyOP•1/7/23, 5:33 AM

a custom parser yeah

Angius•1/7/23, 5:35 AM

Ah, well, you should tokenize it then, into something like

Angius•1/7/23, 5:35 AM

If you do that, no need to strip anything

Angius•1/7/23, 5:36 AM

And with a parser like this you already keep track of

s and

s, so it should be easy to tell which strings are not parts of the tags at that stage

johnrudyOP•1/7/23, 5:36 AM

True, I might actually do that. Because the more I think of it the more confusing it gets.

johnrudyOP•1/7/23, 5:58 AM

Yeah, I'll have to take a closer look at that. To be honest this has now made me rethink my entire system so I might just re do it. Thanks for the advice everyone.