Regular expression HELP

[Anon]

Hi,

This snippet of code removes HTML tags from a text string, but it doesn't remove comments when they contain the '>' character. Any ideas? Also, any suggestions that could speed it up would be greatly appreciated!

<CODE>
function RemoveHTML ($Text) {
//--- Removes basic HTML tags from the text

//--- First get rid of comments (to prevent indented tags)
$Text = ereg_replace ("\<!--([^>]*)--\>", " ", $Text);
//--- Then get rid of the HTML
$Text = ereg_replace ("\<([^>]*)\>", " ", $Text);
//--- Finally get rid of special characters
$Text = ereg_replace ("&#?[a-zA-Z0-9]+;", " ", $Text);

return $Text;

}
</CODE>

Thanks

-- John G.

[Anon]

Isn't the strip_tags() function exactly what you want ?

[Anon]

Does it remove comments and scripting as well? The problem I've got is that sometimes tags are embedded within comments and this confuses the function.