Remove HTML tags from a String

Question

Is there a good way to remove HTML from a Java string? A simple regex like

replaceAll("\\\\<.*?>", &quo         


        

Answer 1

I think that the simpliest way to filter the html tags is:

private static final Pattern REMOVE_TAGS = Pattern.compile("<.+?>");

public static String removeTags(String string) {
    if (string == null || string.length() == 0) {
        return string;
    }

    Matcher m = REMOVE_TAGS.matcher(string);
    return m.replaceAll("");
}