Remove HTML tags from string including &nbsp in C#

Question

How can I remove all the HTML tags including &nbsp using regex in C#. My string looks like

  "<div>hello</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>" 

Answer 1

If you can't use an HTML parser oriented solution to filter out the tags, here's a simple regex for it.

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

You should ideally make another pass through a regex filter that takes care of multiple spaces as

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

Answer 2

I took @Ravi Thapliyal's code and made a method: It is simple and might not clean everything, but so far it is doing what I need it to do.

public static string ScrubHtml(string value) {     var step1 = Regex.Replace(value, @"<[^>]+>|&nbsp;", "").Trim();     var step2 = Regex.Replace(step1, @"\s{2,}", " ");     return step2; }