left(var,80) is how I'm abbreviating the message to be displayed so it
fits on 1 line.

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Jason King <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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