CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
A function that will strip out all anchors in text that has been passed as an argument to the function.

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfsavecontent variable="foo">
This is some text with some <b>html</b> in it as
well as <a href="links.cfm">links with <b>formatting</b></a> in them.
</cfsavecontent>

<cfoutput>#stripAnchors(foo)#</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

/**
 * A function that will strip out all anchors in text that has been passed as an argument.
 * Version 2 by Raymond Camden
 * 
 * @param str      String to strip anchors from. (Required)
 * @return Returns a string. 
 * @author Brian Brown (vonbrownz@hotmail.com) 
 * @version 2, November 1, 2002 
 */
function stripAnchors(str) {
    var temp = reReplaceNoCase(str,"<[[:space:]]*a[[:space:]]+[^>]*>","","all");
    return reReplaceNoCase(temp,"<[[:space:]]*/a[[:space:]]*>","","all");
}