So far I have

#left(REReplaceNoCase(body,"<[^>]*>","","ALL"), 80)#

but that's killing everything.

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Jason Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I need to be able to strip out certain html tags and/or grab some info
> from within tags.
>
> This may be two different functions, but I'm trying to figure out the
> best way to go about this.
>
> Let's say I have the following string and it's set to VAR
>
> <p><img alt="" src="http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt257/jason/
> _729525533_n.jpg" style="width: 614px; height: 502px; " /></p>
>
> So #var# is that string.
>
> I need to remove the <p> (and other html tags like <b>)
>
> I also want to grab the src link out of the img tag.
>
> This is for a messaging app, and I'm trying to grab the first 80
> characters of a message and display that in the user's inbox. I need
> to allow some basic formatting in the messaging app, and users can add
> images, etc. Problem is when I do a simple left(var,80) it doesn't
> remove all of the html, and the html breaks that inbox formatting.
>
> So if the message was #var# I'd want to take it from
>
> <p><img alt="" src="http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt257/jason/
> _729525533_n.jpg" style="width: 614px; height: 502px; " /></p>
>
> to
>
> http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt257/jason/_729525533_n.jpg
>
> Ideas?
>
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