Regular expression to remove HTML tags

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Using a regular expression to parse HTML is fraught with pitfalls. HTML is not a regular language and hence can’t be 100% correctly parsed with a regex. This is just one of many problems you will run into. The best approach is to use an HTML / XML parser to do this for you.

Here is a link to a blog post I wrote awhile back which goes into more details about this problem.

That being said, here’s a solution that should fix this particular problem. It in no way is a perfect solution though. 

var pattern = @"<(img|a)[^>]*>(?<content>[^<]*)<";
var regex = new Regex(pattern);
var m = regex.Match(sSummary);
if ( m.Success ) { 
  sResult = m.Groups["content"].Value;

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