Need regular expression to remove <a href="xx">Name</a> tags from a string [duplicate]

Question

Need regular expression to remove the a tag from the following url <a href="http://example.com">Name</a> to output only the string "Name". I am using C#.net.

Any help is appreciated

Answer 1

This will do a pretty good job:

str = Regex.Replace(str, @"<a\b[^>]+>([^<]*(?:(?!</a)<[^<]*)*)</a>", "$1");

Answer 2

You should be looking at Html Agility Pack. RegEx works on almost all cases but it fails for some basics or broken Html. Since, the grammar of HTML is not regular, Html Agility pack still works perfectly fine in all cases.

If you are looking for just one time this particular case of anchor tag, any above RegEx would work for you, but Html Agility Pack is your long run, solid solution to strip off any Html tags.

Ref: Using C# regular expressions to remove HTML tags