HTMLtoText_deleteTags ( text )

Subordinate Costum Function to HTMLtoText to remove HTML tags (v. 1.04).

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Mogens Brun - Show more from this author
FM Integrator
http://filemakerintegrator.dk

Sample input:

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Sample output:

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Function definition: (Copy & paste into FileMaker's Edit Custom Function window)

// Remove text between $SearchStart and $SearchEnd including $SearchStart and $SearchEnd
// Version: 1.06.
// Parameters: "text" = HTML text to be converted.
// NOTE: Used by HTMLtoText (text;returns) together with HTMLtoText_delete (text)
// 24oct06 ; Mogens Brun ; FM Integrator ; mogens_brun@mac.com
// Mail to mogens_brun@mac.com if you want a demo file with the custom function.

Let (
      [
      $Start = Position ( text ; $SearchStart ; 1 ; 1 ) ;
      $End = Position ( text ; $SearchEnd ; $Start + 1 ; 1 ) + Length ( $SearchEnd ) ;
      $Start = If ( $End < $Start ; 0 ; $Start )
      ] ;
      If (  $Start = 0 ; text ;
      HTMLtoText_deleteTags ( Left ( text ; $Start - 1 ) & Middle ( text ; $End ; Length ( text ) - $End + 1 ) ) )
)

One of two subordinate custom functions used by HTMLtoText (on this site) to parse HTML text to plain text.

Comments

		Crispin Hodges, London UK Jan 31, 2011
This function needs the following at the start of the Let $SearchStart="<"; $SearchEnd=">"; Then it works

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HTMLtoText_deleteTags ( text )

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