Trouble using regexps to explude HTML tags
 

Hello:


My goal is to remove all HTML tags except the following:
// <b> and </b> = Bold;
// <i> and </i> = Italic;
// <u> and </u> = Underline;
// <ul> and </ul> = List;
// <ol> and </ol> = List;
// <li> and </li> = Bullet;
// <br> = Line Break;

So if I use the following line:
it removes the tags that I need and keeps the rest of them.

My question is how to "reverse" it?

You're looking for ^

On a side note, your pattern will exclude any of those tags that include attributes such as a style, class or id attribute. Not sure if that matters to you or not, just thought I would give you the heads up.

Thanks. But where exactly do I put this ^?

And yes, again, all I need to let go through is the plain text and the following tags: <b>, </b>, <i>, </i>, <u>, </u>, <ul>, </ul>, <ol>, </ol>, <li>, </li>, <br>.

I'm sorry I'm not really good with regexs.

~</?[^b|i|u|ul|ol|li|br]+?>~

^ when used in a range means anything but ...

Sorry I'd go into more detail but I'm making dinner.

I tried your sample like this:
and it still doesn't work. For example, it doesn't remove the following:

<a href="123">
or even
<le>

Dinner (especially steak dinner) trumps writing regular expressions.

It also trumps logical thought process. Such as using something more appropriate for the job at hand.

Thanks! You're the man!