smarter "REPLACE"

[Newsgroup_User]

I need help on "Replace" function to make it work smarter. I need to clean
all tags from the database records because the page should not be formatted.
Using a series of "Replace" function as shown below is not comprehensive and
not pretty. Is there a way to remove all tags in one shot?

<cfset content_result = "#Replace(content_result, "<br>", " ", "ALL")#">
<cfset content_result = "#Replace(content_result, "</br>", " ", "ALL")#">
<cfset content_result = "#Replace(content_result, "<br />", " ", "ALL")#">
<cfset content_result = "#Replace(content_result, "<p>", " ", "ALL")#">
<cfset content_result = "#Replace(content_result, "</p>", " ", "ALL")#">
<cfset content_result = "#Replace(content_result, "<h2>", " ", "ALL")#">
<cfset content_result = "#Replace(content_result, "</h2>", ". ", "ALL")#">
<cfset content_result = "#Replace(content_result, "<h3>", " ", "ALL")#">
<cfset content_result = "#Replace(content_result, "</h3>", ". ", "ALL")#">
<cfset content_result = "#Replace(content_result, "<h4>", " ", "ALL")#">
<cfset content_result = "#Replace(content_result, "</h4>", ". ", "ALL")#">
<cfset content_result = "#Replace(content_result, "<ul>", " ", "ALL")#">
<cfset content_result = "#Replace(content_result, "</ul>", ". ", "ALL")#">
<cfset content_result = "#Replace(content_result, "<li>", " ", "ALL")#">
<cfset content_result = "#Replace(content_result, "</li>", ". ", "ALL")#">

[Guest]

You could use REReplace( ), the regular expression version of Replace( ). It would be faster than what you have, but it would probably be uglier. 🙂

[BKBK]

> Is there a way to remove all tags in one shot?

<!--- Code to remove all tags from your content_result --->
<cfscript>
content_result = REReplaceNoCase(content_result,"<[^>]*>","","ALL");
</cfscript>