C# Beginner: Delete ALL between two characters in a string (Regex?)

Question

i have a string with an html code. i want to remove all html tags. so all characters between < and >.

This is my code snipped:

WebClient wClient = new WebClient();
SourceCode = wClient.DownloadString( txtSourceURL.Text );
txtSourceCode.Text = SourceCode;
//remove here all between "<" and ">"
txtSourceCodeFormatted.Text = SourceCode;

hope somebody can help me

Answer 1

Try this:

txtSourceCodeFormatted.Text = Regex.Replace(SourceCode, "<.*?>", string.Empty);

But, as others have mentioned, handle with care.

Answer 2

According to Ravi's answer, you can use

string noHTML = Regex.Replace(inputHTML, @"<[^>]+>|&nbsp;", "").Trim();

or

string noHTMLNormalised = Regex.Replace(noHTML, @"\s{2,}", " ");