ReReplace all html tags except selected

[Guest]

Folks,
I'm trying to figure out how to eliminate all html tags in a string except for <img> and <a> tags. Any ideas? I've been stumped for several days.
thanks,
/r

[Newsgroup_User]

try this:

rereplace(str, "<[^(\/?(a |img )][^>]*>", "", "ALL")

Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/

[Guest]

Hi Azadi. Thanks for the idea, but it doesn't seem to work.

None of the html tags get removed now.

Any other ideas?

[Guest · Accepted solution]

Answer from the Regex Advise Forums at this link: http://regexadvice.com/forums/AddPost.aspx?PostID=40752

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In it's simplest form I would suggest that might be:

<(?!(?:a|img)\s|/a>)[^>]*>

if CF doesn't like (?:):

<(?!(a|img)\s|/a>)[^>]*>