How to parse HTML tags by using Brightscript?

Hi 
I am also looking for same issue, if you got any solution for this. Please give me an update. Thanks in advance, hope to get response from you.

Brightscript Debugger> html = "<tag>hi there<another tag/><tag2> <TAG3>MORE</tag3>"

Brightscript Debugger> ? html
<tag>hi there<another tag/><tag2> <TAG3>MORE</tag3>

Brightscript Debugger> r = CreateObject("roRegex", "<.*?>", "") : ? r.ReplaceAll(html, "")
hi there MORE

Brightscript Debugger> html = "\r\n\tHELLO \r\r\rHOW ARE YOU?"

Brightscript Debugger> ? html
\r\n\tHELLO \r\r\rHOW ARE YOU?

Brightscript Debugger> r = CreateObject("roRegex", "(\\r|\\t|\\v|\\n)", "") : ? r.ReplaceAll(html, "")
HELLO HOW ARE YOU?


Brightscript Debugger> html = "<ol>\r\n\t<li>We use Personal Data to allow you to participate in the features on the Site, to process your registration, and to provide you with other requested content related to our content and other offerings. Click here to learn more&nbsp;</li></ol>"

' strip html tags
Brightscript Debugger> r = CreateObject("roRegex", "<.*?>", "") : html = r.ReplaceAll(html, "")

' strip carriage return, tab, vertical tab, newline
Brightscript Debugger> r = CreateObject("roRegex", "(\\r|\\t|\\v|\\n)", "") : html = r.ReplaceAll(html, "")

Brightscript Debugger> ?html
We use Personal Data to allow you to participate in the features on the Site, to process your registration, and to provide you with other requested content related to our content and other offerings. Click here to learn more&nbsp;

' strip non breaking space entity
Brightscript Debugger> r = CreateObject("roRegex", "&nbsp;", "") : ? r.ReplaceAll(html, "")
We use Personal Data to allow you to participate in the features on the Site, to process your registration, and to provide you with other requested content related to our content and other offerings. Click here to learn more

don't use roRegEx when simple .replace() would do; the latter is faster.
roXmlElement may be of help, if the html in question is well-formed from the point of view of XML.

replace doesn't do glob or grouping does it?

So would still need regex to strip the html tags and possibly the grouped \r \n \t \v. You are right though, the last part where it strips off the &nbsp; could've been replace.

i doubt actual string would have backspace literals, that's neither here (html) nor there (c source) encoding. In Roku-speak, \r\n\t would have been chr(13)+chr(10)+chr(8)

chr(8) is backspace. chr(9) = \t = horizontal tab and chr(11) = \v = vertical tab. You silly rabbit.

Brightscript Debugger> ? "no"+chr(8)+chr(8)+"yes"
yes

"speechles" wrote:
chr(8) is backspace. chr(9) = \t = horizontal tab and chr(11) = \v = vertical tab. You silly rabbit.

i stand corrected.