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# copied from (thanks!): http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/615
str = <<HTML_TEXT
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<body>
<h1>Application error</h1>
<p>Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like
in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html</p>
</body>
</html>
HTML_TEXT
puts str.gsub(/<\/?[^>]*>/, "")
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