[ic] Strip HTML and IC tags

[Ron Phipps]

> From: interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com
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> users-admin@interchange.redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ron Phipps
> 
> > From: interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com
> [mailto:interchange-
> > users-admin@interchange.redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ron Phipps
> >
> > How should I go about stripping all HTML and IC tags from a variable
> or
> > field?  A search of the filter tag only turned up text2html which
will
> > convert line breaks to <BR> for display on an html page.  I'd like
to
> go
> > the other way, but remove all ITL and HTML tags.  I gather that it
> would
> > take a complex set of regexes to do this from my search of google.
Is
> > there a way to do this that is included with IC or should I look at
> > writing a usertag of my own?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Ron
> >
> 
> To strip html add the following filter to interchange.cfg:
> 
> GlobalSub <<EOR
> sub strip_html {
>         BEGIN {
>                 package Vend::Interpolate;
>                 $Filter{striphtml} = sub {
>                                                 my $val = shift;
>                                                 $val =~
> s/<(.|\n)+?>//gis;
>                                                 return $val;
>                                         };
>         }
> }
> EOR
> 
> And call it like this:  [filter striphtml]<a href="test">Testing the
> striphtml filter</a>[/filter]
> 
> Not as difficult as the first example I saw on google :)  This one
will
> remove all text between < and >.  There is probably a better way to
> handle the regex in the case that <> appear outside of an html tag.
> I'll work on a strip ITL as well.  IC team, if you'd like to add this
to
> the default filter list please do.
> 

Here is the strip ITL.  All suggestions are welcome if the regex needs
improvement to handle more complex cases.

GlobalSub <<EOR
sub strip_itl {
        BEGIN {
                package Vend::Interpolate;
                $Filter{stripitl} = sub { 
                                                my $val = shift;
                                                $val =~
s/\[(.|\n)+?\]//gis;
                                                return $val;
                                        };
        }
}
EOR

Back to the site :)
-Ron