[erlang-questions] How to extract string between XML tags

[PAILLEAU Eric]

Hello,
BTW  "</?[^>]{1,}>"  works too, no need to escape /  (Perl reflex :) ...)


Le 29/09/2018 à 11:13, PAILLEAU Eric a écrit :
> hello,
> sorry did not see this question before.
> 
> A simple regexp is possible "<\/?[^>]{1,}>"
> 
> re:replace("<th>title <b>bold</b></th>","<\/?[^>]{1,}>","", [global, 
> {return, list}]).
> "title bold"
> 
> 
> 
> Le 25/09/2018 à 23:56, lloyd@REDACTED a écrit :
>> Hello,
>>
>> By now I should know how to do this. But I've fumbled for more time 
>> than I have to find an elegant solution.
>>
>> Can anyone show a better way?
>>
>> Example string: "<th>Firstname</th>"  % NOTE: could be any valid tag
>>
>> My kludge:
>>
>> extract_text(TaggedText) ->
>>    Split = re:split(TaggedText, "<"),
>>    Split2 = lists:nth(2, Split),
>>    Split3 = binary_to_list(Split2),
>>    Split4 = re:split(Split3, ">"),
>>    Split5 = lists:nth(2, Split4),
>>    binary_to_list(Split5).
>>
>> Surely there's a better way.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> LRP
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