HISE regex is wierd - how to select HTML tags?

[d.healey]

I want to select all html tags in a string. Normally the regex for this would be <[^<>]+>

But this doesn't work with getRegexMatches()

Any suggestions?

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[d.healey]

@Christoph-Hart Any ideas? Also can the .replace() function use regex?

[Christoph Hart]

Yes, that's correct, I've fixed it now so it will find all matches and not just the first one.

[Christoph Hart]

Also can the .replace() function use regex?

No and the syntax for regex replacement is so ugly I can't even look at it...

[d.healey]

@Christoph-Hart Thank you!

[d.healey]

I see you're having fun with the code comments today

[d.healey]

Here's a function for stripping html tags from a string.

const originalString = "
  <div>
    <p>Hey that's <span>something</span></p>
  </div>
";

inline function stripHtmlTags(str)
{
	local newString = str;
	local matches = Engine.getRegexMatches(newString, "<[^<>]+>");

	for (x in matches)
		newString = newString.replace(x);
		
	return newString.trim();
}

Console.print(stripHtmlTags(originalString));