How to get only text from string, ignoring tags-CodePudding

Let's say i have this string :

<img  src="./img-apple-64/1f525.png" alt="??">This is only<img  src="./img-apple-64/1f525.png" alt="??"> <img  src="./img-apple-64/1f916.png" alt="??">what i want<img  src="./img-apple-64/1f916.png" alt="??">

I need to extract only the part of the text without the <img tag. In the example above, this is the resuilt i need :

This is only what i want

Is there a fast / simple way to do this, without having to loop the entire string and manually replacing things ?

CodePudding user response：

Use DOM?

const str = `<img  src="./img-apple-64/1f525.png" alt="??">This is only<img  src="./img-apple-64/1f525.png" alt="??"> <img  src="./img-apple-64/1f916.png" alt="??">what i want<img  src="./img-apple-64/1f916.png" alt="??">`
const div = document.createElement("div");
div.innerHTML = str
console.log(div.textContent)

CodePudding user response：

The following regular expression:

/(?<=\>)([^\<][\s\w]{1,})/gm

will do this for you. See below:

let str = '<img  src="./img-apple-64/1f525.png" alt="??">This is only<img  src="./img-apple-64/1f525.png" alt="??"> <img  src="./img-apple-64/1f916.png" alt="??">what i want<img  src="./img-apple-64/1f916.png" alt="??">'

let match = str.match(/(?<=\>)([^\<][\s\w]{1,})/gm);

match is an array containing the values ['This is only', 'what I want']