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Removing HTML tags from a string in Ruby

Ruby posted 6 months ago by marko

I don’t take credit for the regexp. The source for it is Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.F. Frield. 

   1  def remove_html_tags
   2      re = /<("[^"]*"|'[^']*'|[^'">])*>/
   3      self.title.gsub!(re, '')
   4      self.description.gsub!(re, '')
   5    end

Tagged regexp, ruby, removing html tags