How can I clean HTML tags out of a ColdFusion string?

Question

I am looking for a quick way to parse HTML tags out of a ColdFusion string. We are pulling in an RSS feed, that could potentially have anything in it. We are then doing some man

Answer 1

The best way is usually to coerce < to < and > to >. This way you aren't making assumptions about the nature of the message. Somebody may be talking about or trying to be <> or describing a keystroke +C or using maths 1 < x > 3. Even smilies could trigger the regex <8P X>

    ', '<,>')>