strip html tags from textarea content

[mstilli@gmail.com]

Hi,

I'm really new to flex developing, I'm writing a page that have to
retrieve some content from an xml file and display it in some form
elements.

I would know if exist some way to strip the tags (Html in this case)
from the text that I will later display in a textarea possibly via some
dom-ajax method.

I tryied to google for this before posting here but found nothing.

thanks

marcello stillitano

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public static function stripHtmlTags(html:String, tags:String = ""):String
{
var tagsToBeKept:Array = new Array();
if (tags.length > 0)
tagsToBeKept = tags.split(new RegExp("\\s*,\\s*"));

var tagsToKeep:Array = new Array();
for (var i:int = 0; i < tagsToBeKept.length; i++)
{
if (tagsToBeKept[i] != null && tagsToBeKept[i] != "")
tagsToKeep.push(tagsToBeKept[i]);
}

var toBeRemoved:Array = new Array();
var tagRegExp:RegExp = new RegExp("<([^>\\s]+)(\\s[^>]+)*>", "g");

var foundedStrings:Array = html.match(tagRegExp);
for (i = 0; i < foundedStrings.length; i++)
{
var tagFlag:Boolean = false;
if (tagsToKeep != null)
{
for (var j:int = 0; j < tagsToKeep.length; j++)
{
var tmpRegExp:RegExp = new RegExp("<\/?" + tagsToKeep[j] + "( [^<>]*)*>", "i");
var tmpStr:String = foundedStrings[i] as String;
if (tmpStr.search(tmpRegExp) != -1)
tagFlag = true;
}
}
if (!tagFlag)
toBeRemoved.push(foundedStrings[i]);
}
for (i = 0; i < toBeRemoved.length; i++)
{
var tmpRE:RegExp = new RegExp("([\+\*\$\/])","g");
var tmpRemRE:RegExp = new RegExp((toBeRemoved[i] as String).replace(tmpRE, "\\$1"),"g");
html = html.replace(tmpRemRE, "");
}
return html;
}