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******    message to minivend-users from Frank Miedreich <miedreich@acm.org>     ******

>******    message to minivend-users from Rainer Jung <rj@no-art.de>     ******
>
>Hi !
>
>I am searching for a method to replace html-tags from the
>Descriptionfield to generate the E-Mail without these Tags.
>Now can anyone tell me, if there is another method than using
>[perl] ... s/<.*>//g ... [/perl] ?
>
>	Rainer

unless you want to include a real parser I find something like this 
the most convenient way.

You should use <.+?> in you experession though.

All HTML tags are at least 1 character long, more importantly your 
expression would match the whole string "<em>whatever</em>", instead 
of just the tags themselves.

Frank
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