CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
Handy for scraping screens. This will strip all table, tr, td, and th tags from a string. It also removes leading whitespace and extra newline characters to eliminate code formatting.

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfset htmlString = "<table>
    <tr>
        <th width=""18"" height=""11"">
            this
        </th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>
     | | is (test whitespace stripping)
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr bgcolor=""red"">
        <td>
            some
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>
            test
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>
            code
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>">

<cfoutput>
#htmlCodeFormat(htmlString)#
<br><br>
#htmlCodeFormat(detableize(htmlString))#
</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

<!---
 Strips all table and table content tags and extra whitespace from a string.
 
 @param string      String to format. (Required)
 @return Returns a string. 
 @author Jared Rypka-Hauer (jared@web-relevant.com) 
 @version 1, August 25, 2005 
--->
<cffunction name="detableize">
    <cfargument name="string" type="string" required="true" />
    <cfset var outputString = arguments["string"]>
    <cfset outputString = reReplaceNoCase(outputString , "</*table>", "", "all")>
    <cfset outputString = reReplaceNoCase(outputString , "</*t[rhd](\s*\w*=*""*\w*""*)*>", "", "all")>
    <cfset outputString = reReplaceNoCase(outputString , "(?m)^\s*", "", "all")>
    <cfset outputString = reReplaceNoCase(outputString , "\n{2,}", "#chr(10)#", "all")>
    <cfreturn outputString />
</cffunction>