Java Regex String Replace HTML removeTags(String string)

Description

Removes tags from a given string and returns the parsed string.
Example tags: , ,

,
...

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
string	Target String.

Return

Returns the String where all the tags have been parsed.

Declaration

public static String removeTags(String string) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**//from  www . ja  v  a2s  . c o  m
 * Copyright (C) 2012 Aleksi Postari (@kulttuuri, aleksi@postari.net)
 * License type: MIT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License)
 * This code is part of project Vaadin Irkkia.
 * License in short: You can use this code as you wish, but please keep this license information intach or credit the original author in redistributions.
 * 
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), 
 * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, 
 * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 
 * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 
 * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 */

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Removes tags from a given string and returns the parsed string.<br>
     * Example tags: <b>, </b>, <p>, <br/> ...
     * // TODO: TOO GREEDY. Make only check for HTML tags.
     * @param string Target String.
     * @return Returns the String where all the tags have been parsed.
     */
    public static String removeTags(String string) {
        if (string == null || string.length() == 0)
            return string;

        Pattern REMOVE_TAGS = Pattern.compile("<.+?>");
        Matcher m = REMOVE_TAGS.matcher(string);
        return m.replaceAll("");
    }
}

Related

1. removeAllTags(String input)
2. removeTag(String tagname, String xmlstring)
3. removeTag(String text)
4. removeTags(String html)
5. removeTags(String input, List knownTagList)
6. replaceHtml(String html)
7. replaceHtml(String html)
8. replaceHtmlEntities(final String text)
9. replaceHtmlEntities(String aText, boolean preserveFormatting)