awesome/strip HTML tags

## strip HTML tags
# copied from (thanks!): http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/615

str = <<HTML_TEXT
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<body>
  <h1>Application error</h1>
  <p>Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like
in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html</p>
</body>
</html>
HTML_TEXT

puts str.gsub(/<\/?[^>]*>/, "")
	# copied from (thanks!): http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/615

	str = <<HTML_TEXT
	<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
	"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
	<html>
	<body>
	<h1>Application error</h1>
	<p>Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like
	in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html</p>
	</body>
	</html>
	HTML_TEXT

	puts str.gsub(/<\/?[^>]*>/, "")