Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* Copyright (C) 2010 Haowen Ning This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ public class Main { public static String stripHTML(String htmlText) { // Replace break String processed_str = htmlText.replaceAll("\\<br\\>", ""); // Remove HTML processed_str = processed_str.replaceAll("\\<.*?>", ""); // Remove () [] and their content processed_str = processed_str.replaceAll("\\[.*?\\]", ""); // Remove the XML special character processed_str = processed_str.replaceAll("\\[.*?\\]", ""); return processed_str.trim(); } }