Get lenght of content within HTML

[davidjdoherty]

Hi, I'm receiving input from my user that is HTML. I would like to find
the length of the data within the string, discounting the presentation
logic.

What I mean is that if the user types "<B>Hello</B>", I would like to
find out the length is 5 (the length of 'hello').

Anyone have any ideas of how to this?

Cheers,
David

 

[IchBin]

Hi, I'm receiving input from my user that is HTML. I would like to find
the length of the data within the string, discounting the presentation
logic.

What I mean is that if the user types "<B>Hello</B>", I would like to
find out the length is 5 (the length of 'hello').

Anyone have any ideas of how to this?

Cheers,
David

This is Java group not Javascript. Two different animals. That said look
at http://javascript.about.com/od/reference/g/slength.htm

Better yet a Javascript tutorial.
http://javascript.about.com/od/reference/a/js101.htm
http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp
http://www.pageresource.com/jscript/index4.htm

or just google for them
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[Roedy Green]

What I mean is that if the user types "<B>Hello</B>", I would like to
find out the length is 5 (the length of 'hello').

Anyone have any ideas of how to this?

you could use StripEntities and/or StripTags and look at the string
length.

See http://mindprod.com/products1.html#ENTITIES

site is down right now as server is being moved.