Remove HTML tags in String

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How can I remove HTML tags from the following string? ```

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Accepted Answer

Warning: `This does not work for all cases and should not be used to process untrusted user input.`

```
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
...
const string HTML_TAG_PATTERN = "<.*?>";

static string StripHTML (string inputString)
{
   return Regex.Replace 
     (inputString, HTML_TAG_PATTERN, string.Empty);
}
```

Remove HTML tags in String

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