#22 - Need to strip html tags from overviews

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Common/Extensions/BaseExtensions.cs b/MediaBrowser.Common/Extensions/BaseExtensions.cs
index de9690140..f91ddfbd5 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Common/Extensions/BaseExtensions.cs
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Common/Extensions/BaseExtensions.cs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Security.Cryptography;
 using System.Text;
+using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 
 namespace MediaBrowser.Common.Extensions
 {
@@ -44,6 +45,18 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Common.Extensions
         }
 
         /// <summary>
+        /// Strips the HTML.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="htmlString">The HTML string.</param>
+        /// <returns>System.String.</returns>
+        public static string StripHtml(this string htmlString)
+        {
+            // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1349023/how-can-i-strip-html-from-text-in-net
+            const string pattern = @"<(.|\n)*?>";
+            return Regex.Replace(htmlString, pattern, string.Empty);
+        }
+        
+        /// <summary>
         /// Shuffles an IEnumerable
         /// </summary>
         /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>