How about this:
var pattern:RegExp = new RegExp("(<.*?>)|(</.*?>)", "g");
text = text.replace(pattern, "");
Paul
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Paul Whitelock
Denver, Colorado
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of e_baggg
> > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 2:57 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: RegExp
> >
> > Parker,
> > Thanks, but that did not do the trick. It still returned the
> > full HTML. yes, you are right though...that first back slash
> > was not needed. Hmm, back to the drawing board I guess. It
> > stinks, I found a regular expression that does what I need
> > but it does not compile in AS3. I'll keep hammering the books
> > and tutorials to try and figure this out. newbies to regex
> > and deadlines don't mix well.
> >
> > --- In [email protected]
> > <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "parkerwhirlow"
> > <thunder.stumpges+yahoo@> wrote:
> > >
> > > a couple quick things.. I'm by no means an expert at regex... but...
> > >
> > > the first backslash is unnecessary isn't it? & is not a meta
> > > character, so the \ after the first / isn't needed. also, don't you
> > > want to remove ALL characters between the < and > ? so I'd
> > change the
> > > inner [a-zA-Z0-9]* to .*? (the question mark makes it a lazy
> > > quantifier instead of an agressive quantifier)
> > >
> > > And one last thing, is you may need the multi-line flag
> > also (if the
> > > XML has line breaks... so I'd give this a shot... haven't tried it
> > > myself though....
> > >
> > > /<.*?>/gim
> > >
> > > good luck
> > > PW
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected]
> > <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "e_baggg" <e_baggg@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to create a regular expression that
> > essentially parses
> > > > out all the html of a text string. (i.e. - Remove all
> > text between "<"
> > > > and ">"). I am not the seasoned regex pro, but my
> > attempts have
> > > > failed based on research within the livedocs:
> > > >
> > > > var pattern : RegExp = /\<[a-zA-Z0-9]*>/gi
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone see what is wrong?
> > > >
> > > > var stringToEdit : String = "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
> > '-//W3C//DTD
> > > > HTML 4.01
> > Transitional//EN'><html><head>text I should
> > > > see</head></html>";
> > > >
> > > > var pattern : RegExp = /\<[a-zA-Z0-9]*>/gi var
> > newStr : String
> > > > = stringToEdit.replace(pattern, ""); trace(newStr);
> > > >
> > > > //Desired Output:
> > > > text I should see
> > > >
> > > > //Actual output :-(
> > > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
> > > > Transitional//EN"><html><head>text I should see</head></html>
> > > >
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