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How to strip HTML Tags from a String Buffer in Clarion is easy as pi....

Ever needed to extract data from html or clean up you email reader....

Move a sliding window over the string data; determining when we have found the start and end of a html tag and then cut...its really that easy...

Example Stripping Code:

stag# = False
j# = 1
LOOP i# = 1 TO LEN(CLIP(pMessage))
IF pMessage[i#] = CHR(62) AND stag# = True THEN
stag# = False
ELSIF pMessage[i#] = CHR(60) AND stag# = False THEN
stag# = True
ELSE
IF NOT stag# THEN OutMessage[j#] = pMessage[i#];j# += 1.
END
END

CHR(62) is '<' tag and CHR(60) is '>' tag....everything inclusive and in between is html formating....there are a few exceptions like converting <br> to carriage return line feeds and &nbsp; and other encoded chars like &#13; etc.....

But this is perfect for extracting data from http streams...Clarion is a very powerful tool when doing parsing work...

Cheers...