Remove tags from a string in AS3

posted in ActionScript on 2010-06-30   text tags var string text replace removehtml text text replace gi text text str regexp gi text

A couple of months ago I integrated a nice WYSIWYG editor written in Flex in my CMS. It worked fine, till yesterday I needed to add more features like text formatting and font color changing. As you know the Flex RichTextEditor component adds some additional tags that I definitely don't want to send to the database. So I wrote a simple function to remove these tags.

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