Meaning of this Regular Expression?

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Could anyone please tell me the meaning of this Regular Expression?
Regex regex = new Regex("\\<[^\\>]*\\>");

Posted 4-Jan-11 22:10pm

venkatrao palepu

Updated 4-Jan-11 22:21pm

Sandeep Mewara

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Solution 1

See my TIP[^] Here, I've explained the same expression there.

It's just used to find any HTML tag.

Posted 4-Jan-11 22:18pm

Hiren solanki

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Rajesh Anuhya 5-Jan-11 4:20am

Good one.

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Espen Harlinn · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-04T22:24:00

Solution 3

Regex regex = new Regex("\\<[^\\>]*\\>"); .

can be rewritten as

Regex regex = new Regex(@"\<[^\>]*\>"); .

Match must start with a '<' character, then zero or more characters excluding '>' and then a '>' character

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Espen Harlinn

Posted 4-Jan-11 22:24pm

Espen Harlinn

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Espen Harlinn 5-Jan-11 4:42am

Oddly enough somebody voted me a 1 for this - it's essentially the same info provided by Hiren Solanki in his tip at http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/136704/Remove-all-the-HTML-tags-and-display-a-plain-text-.aspx

There where 0 answers to this question when I started to write my answer, and it isn't all that unusual that several people answers the same question at the same time. Ahh .. well, go figure ..

OriginalGriff 6-Jan-11 6:28am

No, I suspect it's the OP not liking the answer too much...compensation applied!

Espen Harlinn 6-Jan-11 6:43am

Thanks :-)