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wtnabe/strip_tags.rb

Created November 4, 2009 22:44
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A Ruby version of PHP's strip_tags() function
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strip_tags.rb
require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
$KCODE = 'u'
def strip_tags( html )
Hpricot( html ).inner_text.gsub( /(?:\xc2\xa0| #  
\xe3\x80\x80| # fullwidth
[\s])+/x, ' ' ).strip
end
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