SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[udf_StripHTML]
(
@HTMLText varchar(8000)
)
RETURNS varchar(8000)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @Start int
DECLARE @End int
DECLARE @Length int
-- Replace the HTML entity & with the '&' character (this needs to be done first, as-- '&' might be double encoded as '&')
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('&', @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 4
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
WHILE (@Start > 0 AND @End > 0 AND @Length > 0) BEGIN
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText, @Start, @Length, '&')
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('&', @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 4
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
END
-- Replace the HTML entity < with the '<' character
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<', @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 3
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
WHILE (@Start > 0 AND @End > 0 AND @Length > 0) BEGIN
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText, @Start, @Length, '<')
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<', @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 3
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
END
-- Replace the HTML entity > with the '>' character
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('>', @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 3
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
WHILE (@Start > 0 AND @End > 0 AND @Length > 0) BEGIN
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText, @Start, @Length, '>')
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('>', @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 3
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
END
-- Replace the HTML entity & with the '&' character
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('&amp;', @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 4
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
WHILE (@Start > 0 AND @End > 0 AND @Length > 0) BEGIN
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText, @Start, @Length, '&')
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('&amp;', @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 4
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
END
-- Replace the HTML entity with the ' ' character
SET @Start = CHARINDEX(' ', @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 5
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
WHILE (@Start > 0 AND @End > 0 AND @Length > 0) BEGIN
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText, @Start, @Length, ' ')
SET @Start = CHARINDEX(' ', @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 5
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
END
-- Replace any <br> tags with a comma and a space (mainly for excel purposes)
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<br>', @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 3
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
WHILE (@Start > 0 AND @End > 0 AND @Length > 0) BEGIN
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText, @Start, @Length, ', ')
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<br>', @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 3
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
END
-- Replace any <br/> tags with a newline
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<br/>', @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 4
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
WHILE (@Start > 0 AND @End > 0 AND @Length > 0) BEGIN
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText, @Start, @Length, ', ')
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<br/>', @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 4
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
END
-- Replace any <br /> tags with a newline
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<br />', @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 5
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
WHILE (@Start > 0 AND @End > 0 AND @Length > 0) BEGIN
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText, @Start, @Length, ', ')
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<br />', @HTMLText)
SET @End = @Start + 5
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
END
-- Replace any <br> tags with a newline
--SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<br>', @HTMLText)
--SET @End = @Start + 3
--SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
--WHILE (@Start > 0 AND @End > 0 AND @Length > 0) BEGIN
-- SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText, @Start, @Length, CHAR(13) + CHAR(10))
-- SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<br>', @HTMLText)
-- SET @End = @Start + 3
-- SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
--END
-- Replace any <br/> tags with a newline
--SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<br/>', @HTMLText)
--SET @End = @Start + 4
--SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
--WHILE (@Start > 0 AND @End > 0 AND @Length > 0) BEGIN
-- SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText, @Start, @Length, 'CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)')
-- SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<br/>', @HTMLText)
-- SET @End = @Start + 4
-- SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
--END
-- Replace any <br /> tags with a newline
--SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<br />', @HTMLText)
--SET @End = @Start + 5
--SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
--WHILE (@Start > 0 AND @End > 0 AND @Length > 0) BEGIN
-- SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText, @Start, @Length, 'CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)')
-- SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<br />', @HTMLText)
-- SET @End = @Start + 5
-- SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
--END
-- Remove anything between <whatever> tags
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<', @HTMLText)
SET @End = CHARINDEX('>', @HTMLText, CHARINDEX('<', @HTMLText))
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
WHILE (@Start > 0 AND @End > 0 AND @Length > 0) BEGIN
SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText, @Start, @Length, '')
SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<', @HTMLText)
SET @End = CHARINDEX('>', @HTMLText, CHARINDEX('<', @HTMLText))
SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1
END
RETURN LTRIM(RTRIM(@HTMLText))
END
GO
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