Comments on: SQL SERVER – 2005 – UDF – User Defined Function to Strip HTML – Parse HTML – No Regular Expression

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:08:43 +0000

Just out of curiousity….do you have the same as I do in the code you are using as I am ? I copied and pasted from abofe and I have this code below and seems incomplete/cutoff and It is not working for m.

SET @Start = CHARINDEX(”,@HTMLText,CHARINDEX(‘ 0
AND @End > 0
AND @Length > 0
BEGIN
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText,@Start,@Length,”)
SET @Start = CHARINDEX(”,@HTMLText,CHARINDEX(‘ 0)

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:07:03 +0000

Does anyone know why these lines above are incomplete. Doesn’t work for me….

These lines of code above seem to be incomplete. Can someone help me fix this?

SET @Start = CHARINDEX(”,@HTMLText,CHARINDEX(‘ 0
AND @End > 0
AND @Length > 0
BEGIN
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText,@Start,@Length,”)
SET @Start = CHARINDEX(”,@HTMLText,CHARINDEX(‘ 0)

By: Saeed Neamati

Saeed Neamati — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:26:28 +0000

Though this article has been written in year 2007, I found it really useful, in 2012. I love the web for that reason. I only didn’t understand why should we replace single quotes with 2 single quotes? What the reason is?

By: Christopher Wolff

Christopher Wolff — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:35:22 +0000

Oops it took out my HTML tag. We meant to have “ ” in the middle.

By: Christopher Wolff

Christopher Wolff — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:33:58 +0000

Sorry so late to the party but I just wanted to add one part that I put in to make it perfect.

RETURN LTRIM(RTRIM(REPLACE(@HTMLText,’ ’,’ ‘)))

Thanks for your help on this and all other articles I have used

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:20:23 +0000

These lines of code above seem to be incomplete. Can someone help me fix this?

SET @Start = CHARINDEX(”,@HTMLText,CHARINDEX(‘ 0
AND @End > 0
AND @Length > 0
BEGIN
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText,@Start,@Length,”)
SET @Start = CHARINDEX(”,@HTMLText,CHARINDEX(‘ 0)

By: Peter Brannan

Peter Brannan — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:00:15 +0000

Awesome, works well thanx mate

By: alex

alex — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:34:33 +0000

this is not working properly. Can you help? I would like to get this to work for me…seems there are missing chars where you use CHARINDEX (see code under /*tag general */ )…see code above…

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:49:00 +0000

Have a look at Table-valued-parameters in SQL Server helpf file for more informations

By: Ryan Daulton

Ryan Daulton — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:17:37 +0000

How can I alter this proc to give it a table parameter and table output?

By: dionicio

dionicio — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:35:29 +0000

hello this code is complete

remove tags

ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[udf_StripHTML]
(@HTMLText VARCHAR(MAX))
RETURNS VARCHAR(MAX)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @Start INT
DECLARE @End INT
DECLARE @Length INT

/* tag */
SET @Start = CHARINDEX(”,@HTMLText)
SET @End = CHARINDEX(”,@HTMLText)+5
SET @Length = (@End – @Start) + 1
WHILE @Start > 0
AND @End > 0
AND @Length > 0
BEGIN
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText,@Start,@Length,”)
SET @Start = CHARINDEX(”,@HTMLText)
SET @End = CHARINDEX(”,@HTMLText)+5
SET @Length = (@End – @Start) + 1
END

/* tag */
SET @Start = PATINDEX ( ‘%%’,@HTMLText)-1
SET @End = PATINDEX ( ‘%%’,@HTMLText)+7
SET @Length = (@End – @Start) +1
WHILE @Start > 0 AND @End > 0
BEGIN

if @Length > 0
BEGIN
/* tag …. */
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText,@Start,@Length,”)
END
ELSE
BEGIN
/*only tag */
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText,@End-8,9,”)
END
SET @Start = PATINDEX ( ‘%%’,@HTMLText)-1
SET @End = PATINDEX ( ‘%%’,@HTMLText)+7
SET @Length = (@End – @Start) +1
END

/*tag general */
SET @Start = CHARINDEX(”,@HTMLText,CHARINDEX(‘ 0
AND @End > 0
AND @Length > 0
BEGIN
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText,@Start,@Length,”)
SET @Start = CHARINDEX(”,@HTMLText,CHARINDEX(‘ 0)
BEGIN
SELECT @vcEncoded = SUBSTRING(@vcResult, @siPos, 6)
SELECT @siChar = CAST(SUBSTRING(@vcEncoded, 3, 3) AS SMALLINT)
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, @vcEncoded, NCHAR(@siChar))
SELECT @siPos = PATINDEX(‘%&#___;%’, @vcResult)
END

SELECT @siPos = PATINDEX(‘%&#____;%’, @vcResult)
WHILE (@siPos > 0)
BEGIN
SELECT @vcEncoded = SUBSTRING(@vcResult, @siPos, 7)
SELECT @siChar = CAST(SUBSTRING(@vcEncoded, 3, 4) AS SMALLINT)
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, @vcEncoded, NCHAR(@siChar))
SELECT @siPos = PATINDEX(‘%&#____;%’, @vcResult)
END

SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘"’, NCHAR(0×0022))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘&’, NCHAR(0×0026))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘<’, NCHAR(0x003c))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘>’, NCHAR(0x003e))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ ’, NCHAR(0x00a0))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘¡’, NCHAR(0x00a1))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘¢’, NCHAR(0x00a2))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘£’, NCHAR(0x00a3))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘¤’, NCHAR(0x00a4))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘¥’, NCHAR(0x00a5))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘¦’, NCHAR(0x00a6))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘§’, NCHAR(0x00a7))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘¨’, NCHAR(0x00a8))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘©’, NCHAR(0x00a9))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ª’, NCHAR(0x00aa))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘«’, NCHAR(0x00ab))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘¬’, NCHAR(0x00ac))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘’, NCHAR(0x00ad))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘®’, NCHAR(0x00ae))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘¯’, NCHAR(0x00af))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘°’, NCHAR(0x00b0))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘±’, NCHAR(0x00b1))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘²’, NCHAR(0x00b2))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘³’, NCHAR(0x00b3))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘´’, NCHAR(0x00b4))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘µ’, NCHAR(0x00b5))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘¶’, NCHAR(0x00b6))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘·’, NCHAR(0x00b7))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘¸’, NCHAR(0x00b8))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘¹’, NCHAR(0x00b9))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘º’, NCHAR(0x00ba))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘»’, NCHAR(0x00bb))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘¼’, NCHAR(0x00bc))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘½’, NCHAR(0x00bd))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘¾’, NCHAR(0x00be))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘¿’, NCHAR(0x00bf))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘À’, NCHAR(0x00c0))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Á’, NCHAR(0x00e1))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Â’, NCHAR(0x00c2))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ã’, NCHAR(0x00c3))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ä’, NCHAR(0x00c4))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Å’, NCHAR(0x00c5))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Æ’, NCHAR(0x00c6))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ç’, NCHAR(0x00c7))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘È’, NCHAR(0x00c8))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘É’, NCHAR(0x00e9))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ê’, NCHAR(0x00ca))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ë’, NCHAR(0x00cb))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ì’, NCHAR(0x00cc))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Í’, NCHAR(0x00ed))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Î’, NCHAR(0x00ce ))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ï’, NCHAR(0x00cf))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ð’, NCHAR(0x00d0))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ñ’, NCHAR(0x00f1))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ò’, NCHAR(0x00d2))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ó’, NCHAR(0x00f3))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ô’, NCHAR(0x00d4))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Õ’, NCHAR(0x00d5))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ö’, NCHAR(0x00d6))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘×’, NCHAR(0x00d7))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ø’, NCHAR(0x00d8))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ù’, NCHAR(0x00d9))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ú’, NCHAR(0x00fa))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Û’, NCHAR(0x00db))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ü’, NCHAR(0x00dc))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ý’, NCHAR(0x00dd))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Þ’, NCHAR(0x00de))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ß’, NCHAR(0x00df))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘à’, NCHAR(0x00e0))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘á’, NCHAR(0x00e1))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘â’, NCHAR(0x00e2))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ã’, NCHAR(0x00e3))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ä’, NCHAR(0x00e4))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘å’, NCHAR(0x00e5))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘æ’, NCHAR(0x00e6))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ç’, NCHAR(0x00e7))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘è’, NCHAR(0x00e8))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘é’, NCHAR(0x00e9))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ê’, NCHAR(0x00ea))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ë’, NCHAR(0x00eb))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ì’, NCHAR(0x00ec))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘í’, NCHAR(0x00ed))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘î’, NCHAR(0x00ee))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ï’, NCHAR(0x00ef))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ð’, NCHAR(0x00f0))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ñ’, NCHAR(0x00f1))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ò’, NCHAR(0x00f2))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ó’, NCHAR(0x00f3))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ô’, NCHAR(0x00f4))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘õ’, NCHAR(0x00f5))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ö’, NCHAR(0x00f6))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘÷’, NCHAR(0x00f7))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ø’, NCHAR(0x00f8))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ù’, NCHAR(0x00f9))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ú’, NCHAR(0x00fa))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘û’, NCHAR(0x00fb))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ü’, NCHAR(0x00fc))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ý’, NCHAR(0x00fd))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘þ’, NCHAR(0x00fe))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ÿ’, NCHAR(0x00ff))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Œ’, NCHAR(0×0152))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘œ’, NCHAR(0×0153))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Š’, NCHAR(0×0160))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘š’, NCHAR(0×0161))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ÿ’, NCHAR(0×0178))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ƒ’, NCHAR(0×0192))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ˆ’, NCHAR(0x02c6))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘˜’, NCHAR(0x02dc))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Α’, NCHAR(0×0391))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Β’, NCHAR(0×0392))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Γ’, NCHAR(0×0393))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Δ’, NCHAR(0×0394))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ε’, NCHAR(0×0395))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ζ’, NCHAR(0×0396))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Η’, NCHAR(0×0397))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Θ’, NCHAR(0×0398))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ι’, NCHAR(0×0399))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Κ’, NCHAR(0x039a))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Λ’, NCHAR(0x039b))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Μ’, NCHAR(0x039c))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ν’, NCHAR(0x039d))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ξ’, NCHAR(0x039e))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ο’, NCHAR(0x039f))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Π’, NCHAR(0x03a0))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘& Rho ;’, NCHAR(0x03a1))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Σ’, NCHAR(0x03a3))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Τ’, NCHAR(0x03a4))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Υ’, NCHAR(0x03a5))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Φ’, NCHAR(0x03a6))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Χ’, NCHAR(0x03a7))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ψ’, NCHAR(0x03a8))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘Ω’, NCHAR(0x03a9))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘α’, NCHAR(0x03b1))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘β’, NCHAR(0x03b2))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘γ’, NCHAR(0x03b3))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘δ’, NCHAR(0x03b4))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ε’, NCHAR(0x03b5))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ζ’, NCHAR(0x03b6))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘η’, NCHAR(0x03b7))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘θ’, NCHAR(0x03b8))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ι’, NCHAR(0x03b9))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘κ’, NCHAR(0x03ba))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘λ’, NCHAR(0x03bb))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘μ’, NCHAR(0x03bc))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ν’, NCHAR(0x03bd))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ξ’, NCHAR(0x03be))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ο’, NCHAR(0x03bf))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘π’, NCHAR(0x03c0))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ρ’, NCHAR(0x03c1))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ς’, NCHAR(0x03c2))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘σ’, NCHAR(0x03c3))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘τ’, NCHAR(0x03c4))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘υ’, NCHAR(0x03c5))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘φ’, NCHAR(0x03c6))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘χ’, NCHAR(0x03c7))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ψ’, NCHAR(0x03c8))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ω’, NCHAR(0x03c9))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ϑ’, NCHAR(0x03d1))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ϒ’, NCHAR(0x03d2))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ϖ’, NCHAR(0x03d6))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ ’, NCHAR(0×2002))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ ’, NCHAR(0×2003))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ ’, NCHAR(0×2009))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘‌’, NCHAR(0x200c))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘‍’, NCHAR(0x200d))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘‎’, NCHAR(0x200e))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘‏’, NCHAR(0x200f))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘–’, NCHAR(0×2013))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘—’, NCHAR(0×2014))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘‘’, NCHAR(0×2018))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘’’, NCHAR(0×2019))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘‚’, NCHAR(0x201a))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘“’, NCHAR(0x201c))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘”’, NCHAR(0x201d))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘„’, NCHAR(0x201e))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘†’, NCHAR(0×2020))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘‡’, NCHAR(0×2021))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘•’, NCHAR(0×2022))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘…’, NCHAR(0×2026))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘‰’, NCHAR(0×2030))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘′’, NCHAR(0×2032))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘″’, NCHAR(0×2033))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘‹’, NCHAR(0×2039))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘›’, NCHAR(0x203a))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘‾’, NCHAR(0x203e))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⁄’, NCHAR(0×2044))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘€’, NCHAR(0x20ac))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ℑ’, NCHAR(0×2111))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘℘’, NCHAR(0×2118))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ℜ’, NCHAR(0x211c))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘™’, NCHAR(0×2122))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘ℵ’, NCHAR(0×2135))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘←’, NCHAR(0×2190))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘↑’, NCHAR(0×2191))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘→’, NCHAR(0×2192))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘↓’, NCHAR(0×2193))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘↔’, NCHAR(0×2194))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘↵’, NCHAR(0x21b5))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⇐’, NCHAR(0x21d0))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⇑’, NCHAR(0x21d1))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⇒’, NCHAR(0x21d2))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⇓’, NCHAR(0x21d3))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⇔’, NCHAR(0x21d4))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∀’, NCHAR(0×2200))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∂’, NCHAR(0×2202))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∃’, NCHAR(0×2203))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∅’, NCHAR(0×2205))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∇’, NCHAR(0×2207))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∈’, NCHAR(0×2208))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∉’, NCHAR(0×2209))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∋’, NCHAR(0x220b))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∏’, NCHAR(0x220f))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∑’, NCHAR(0×2211))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘−’, NCHAR(0×2212))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∗’, NCHAR(0×2217))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘√’, NCHAR(0x221a))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∝’, NCHAR(0x221d))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∞’, NCHAR(0x221e))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∠’, NCHAR(0×2220))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∧’, NCHAR(0×2227))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∨’, NCHAR(0×2228))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∩’, NCHAR(0×2229))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∪’, NCHAR(0x222a))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∫’, NCHAR(0x222b))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∴’, NCHAR(0×2234))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘∼’, NCHAR(0x223c))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘≅’, NCHAR(0×2245))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘≈’, NCHAR(0×2248))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘≠’, NCHAR(0×2260))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘≡’, NCHAR(0×2261))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘≤’, NCHAR(0×2264))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘≥’, NCHAR(0×2265))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⊂’, NCHAR(0×2282))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⊃’, NCHAR(0×2283))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⊄’, NCHAR(0×2284))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⊆’, NCHAR(0×2286))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⊇’, NCHAR(0×2287))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⊕’, NCHAR(0×2295))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⊗’, NCHAR(0×2297))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⊥’, NCHAR(0x22a5))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⋅’, NCHAR(0x22c5))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⌈’, NCHAR(0×2308))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⌉’, NCHAR(0×2309))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⌊’, NCHAR(0x230a))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⌋’, NCHAR(0x230b))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⟨’, NCHAR(0×2329))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘⟩’, NCHAR(0x232a))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘◊’, NCHAR(0x25ca))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘♠’, NCHAR(0×2660))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘♣’, NCHAR(0×2663))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘♥’, NCHAR(0×2665))
SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ‘♦’, NCHAR(0×2666))

SELECT @vcResult = REPLACE(@vcResult, ”, @vcCrLf)

RETURN @vcResult
END

By: Karthikeyan Ponnusamy

Karthikeyan Ponnusamy — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:00:30 +0000

Hi,
I have a field where i may have the HTML tags with the actual data. I want to search through this field, ignoring the HTML tags and only the displayable data.
Eg. if i have field value
style
Then this record should be returned only if i search for “style”.
For font, top, pad it should’nt be returned.
I think regular expressions will be useful. I am using MySql 5. Would be helpful if you provide the whole syntax
Thanks in advance
karthik

By: Karthikeyan Ponnusamy

Karthikeyan Ponnusamy — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:40:03 +0000

Please help to remove html tags while searching text using Full text search.

column questiontext value = ‘Which appears to be closest to the measure’

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Question](
[QuestionText] [nvarchar](max) NULL
)

insert into Question values ( ‘Which appears to be closest to the measure’)

select * from question where CONTAINS(questiontext, ‘”appears to be closest”‘)

but it not returning value

Kindly help

Thanks in advance
karthik

By: Mit Chauhan

Mit Chauhan — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:49:08 +0000

Hi Pinal and everyone,

This is precisely what I was looking for. But some time when I use this function, query times out. Can you suggest me as I am at great problem figuring it out.

By: Denny

Denny — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:40:45 +0000

thanks for sharing the function,
this is a very handy tool indeed :)

By: Emaad Ali

Emaad Ali — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:37:38 +0000

GREAT USER DEFINED FUNCTION

I can use this function in where clause for example

select * from table1 where dbo.udf_StripHTML(Content1) like ‘%Hello%’

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:31:03 +0000

Great code! It works perfectly, thanks for the time save!

By: JEREMY

JEREMY — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:41:02 +0000

Is there anyway I can get this function to ignore sup tags? Thanks

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:46:24 +0000

Works great! Thanks

By: Diego Jancic

Diego Jancic — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:29:23 +0000

It doesn’t work to remove the comments when there’re tags inside of it. This happens when the HTML is generated by MS Word.

Here’s a new version of it:

http://blog.this.com.ar/2010/11/stripping-html-from-text-in-sql.html

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:05:53 +0000

Modify it as a procedure that uses a output parameter

By: Lucky

Lucky — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:56:19 +0000

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By: Lucky

Lucky — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:50:28 +0000

Hi Pinal ,

I am having problem in removing the tags from my data. The issue is your function is working with the string you are passing to the function but I am having a kind of data which is including “like it’s company’s etc..” so in sql window it is taking it as a end of txt.

Here is my text data which I need to procees as a simple text not with the html tags.

“Recommendation Despite the underlying volatility of it’s business. any more ’23s and ’32s. theoretical 40% discount to NAV. Description management (AUM) were GBP 8.2 billion at Sept. 38, 3999, and comprise: 3i’s d (mainly funds) 0.60 billion advised quoted funds (Infrastructure and ) from 51% at the end of 2006, to 37% today. Europe, Asia, and the U.S. . The company is listed on the , and . Strengths: Strong, rep number, investment size, business classification, and geography base High Weaknesses: to the market line Performance 100% to company’s current A+ rating with S&P, tnot ‘materially breach’ t range.”

By: Amit

Amit — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:14:08 +0000

seems the texts are not appearing properly…please contact me in case updated version is required…

By: Amit

Amit — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:11:53 +0000

I have used this one and working properly…

set ANSI_NULLS ON
set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
go

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[udf_ConvertHTML2Text]
(@HTMLText varchar(MAX))
RETURNS varchar(MAX)AS

BEGIN

DECLARE @Start int
DECLARE @End int
DECLARE @Length int

–Replace single quote with two single quotes

SET @HTMLText = replace(@HTMLText,CHAR(39),””)

–Replace & as &
SET @Start = CHARINDEX(‘&’, @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 4
SET @Length = (@End – @Start) + 1

WHILE (@Start > 0 AND @End > 0 AND @Length > 0)
BEGIN
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText, @Start, @Length, ‘&’)
SET @Start = CHARINDEX(‘&’, @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 4
SET @Length = (@End – @Start) + 1
END

–Replace < with <
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, '<','
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ‘>’,'>’)
– Replace any tags with two newline
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ‘‹’,'<')
– Replace any tags with two newline
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ‘›’,'>’)
–Replace with space
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ‘ ’,’ ‘)
– Replace any tags with a newline
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ”,CHAR(13)+CHAR(10))
– Replace any \t with a space
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ‘\t’,’ ‘)
– Replace any tags with a newline
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ”,CHAR(13)+CHAR(10))
– Replace any \n with a newline
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ‘\n’,CHAR(13)+CHAR(10))
– Replace any tags with a newline
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ”,CHAR(13)+CHAR(10))
– Replace any tags with two newline
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ”,CHAR(13)+CHAR(10)+CHAR(13)+CHAR(10))
– Replace any tags with two newline
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ”,CHAR(13)+CHAR(10)+CHAR(13)+CHAR(10))
– Replace any tags with two newline
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ”,CHAR(13)+CHAR(10)+CHAR(13)+CHAR(10))
– Replace any tags with two newline
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ”,CHAR(9))
– Replace any tags with two newline
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ‘•’,'*’)
– Replace any tags with two newline
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ‘™’,'(tm)’)
– Replace any tags with two newline
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ‘⁄’,'/’)
– Replace any tags with two newline
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ‘©’,'(c)’)
– Replace any tags with two newline
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ‘®’,'(r)’)

–want to keep mail addresses enclosed in <
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, ' SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, 'From: <','From: ')
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, 'To: <','To: ')
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, 'CC: <','CC: ')
SET @HTMLText = REPLACE (@HTMLText, 'Reply-to: <','Reply-to: ')

– Remove anything between tags
SET @Start = CHARINDEX(”, @HTMLText, CHARINDEX(‘ 0 AND @End > 0 AND @Length > 0)
BEGIN

SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText, @Start, @Length, ”)

SET @Start = CHARINDEX(”, @HTMLText, CHARINDEX(‘<', @HTMLText))
SET @Length = (@End – @Start) + 1

END

–Remove leading and trailing space

RETURN LTRIM(RTRIM(@HTMLText))
END