Let's say I've got a set of strings being drawn from a database that look like this:
"<p><strong>This is a test<stro" (NEEDS TRIMMING)
"<p>This is a test 2</p><br />Hi." (GOOD)
"<i>This is a test 3</i" (NEEDS TRIMMING)
I want to trim my results so that the two strings with incomplete HTML become:
"<p><strong>This is a test" (TRIMMED)
"<i>This is a test 3" (TRIMMED)
So basically I want to trim off from "<" to the end of my string, but only in the situation that a finalizing ">" is not present.
Normally I would think to make my strings into a list delimited by "<" and then removing the last item, but that would also trim all the GOOD statements that have terminating ">"'s.
Can someone lead me in the right direction? I've been scratching my head over this for a couple of days.
Thanks,
Sam
18 Mar, 2008 - 01:22 PM
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