Find/Replace regex to remove html tags

Question

Using find and replace, what regex would remove the tags surrounding something like this:

Viticulture and Enology

Answer 1

String s = "Viticulture and Enology";
s.replaceAll ("()([^<]+)", "$2")
res1: java.lang.String = Viticulture and Enology

(Tested with scala, therefore the res1:)

With sed, you would use a little different syntax:

echo 'Viticulture and Enology'|sed -re 's|()([^<]+)|\2|'

For notepad++, I don't know the details, but "[0-9]+" should mean 'at least one digit', "[^<]" anything but a opening less-than, multiple times. Masking and backreferences may differ. Regexes are problematic, if they span multiple lines, or are hidden by a comment, a regex will not recognize it.

However, a lot of html is genereated in a regex-friendly way, always fitting into a line, and never commented out. Or you use it in throwaway code, and can check your input before.