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at February 16, 2010 05:02 by adrianparr
Initial Code 
var myString:String = "<p><b>bold</b> <i>italic</i> <a href='#'>link</a> <br>linebreak</p>";
trace(myString)
var removeHtmlRegExp:RegExp = new RegExp("<[^<]+?>", "gi");
myString = myString.replace(removeHtmlRegExp, "");
trace(myString);

// OUTPUT
// <p><b>bold</b> <i>italic</i> <a href='#'>link</a> <br>linebreak</p>
// bold italic link linebreak
Initial URL 
http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/
Initial Description 
Grant Skinner's RegExr: Online Regular Expression Testing Tool is very handy for checking your regular expressions.
http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/
Initial Title 
AS3 Remove HTML Tags From Text
Initial Tags 
regex, html, regexp, text
Initial Language 
ActionScript 3