>Three options here (well, two really since one just uses a compiled regex for speed) : http://www.dotnetperls.com/remove-html-tags
>You'd still need the final StrTran().....

That page is certainly the most comprehensive one I have seen since last night. I have searched for all kinds of related content and none was closed to that. I ended up using RegEx(). I was able to cut it down to a fraction of a second.

I read that reference. I am still trying to understand how StripTagsCharArray() works.