SpringFlowers AutumnMoon wrote: > > in > http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/wiki/HpricotChallenge#StripallHTMLtags > it says just use > > str=doc.to_s > print str.gsub(/<\/?[^>]*>/, "") > > but can't the < > be nested in some HTML code? If it is nested then > the above won't work, it seems. What do you mean by nested? I would consider your example as containing nested tags: <b>hello <i>world</i></b>" and the regex removes all the tags from that string. html can look like this: <h2<p>hel<b<i>></h2<b>llo<h1<b<i>>>worl</i><b></h1> What do you want to do with that string? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.