>>You might want to look at an Html Parser like the one in HtmlAgilityPack. This will be more reliable as it can destructure the HTML into a DOM and then return the innerText. HtmlAgility can be pretty fast for lots of thing, but more importantly it generally will do a better job at pulling out text that is properly formatted, separating elements etc.
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>>It's not easy to get that logic right.
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>Thanks, that is another interesting approach.
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>I am not sure however if it can perform as fast as a simple RegEx() command.

You'd be surprised. An optimized DOM parser that you can feed small snippets to will be very fast and as I said much more reliable in producing valid text. There are a lot of things you need to worry about with parsing HTML strings - HTML encoding, characters that might interfere with your RegEx parse chars etc.

I've been down this road a few times, and let me tell you there are lots of edge cases and it gets much worse when you deal with nested elements...

Before you re-invent the wheel look at HtmlAgility pack - it'll take you 15 minutes to determine how well it performs but will be well worth your time if it works (and you probably find other uses for it).

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