CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
removeLinks searches a string for A tags and removes the tag and the closing tag. It takes one required argument, the string to be stripped. It returns the string with the links removed.

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfsavecontent variable="str">
<a href="http://www.cflib.org">CFlib.org</a><br>
More <b>test</b><br>
<a href="http://www.cnn.com">CNN.com
</a>
</cfsavecontent>

<cfoutput>#removeLinks(str)#</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

/**
 * Strips links and closing link tags from a string.
 * Version 2 by Raymond Camden
 * 
 * @param str      String to parse. (Required)
 * @return Returns a string. 
 * @author Jen Wright (jen@jenw.net) 
 * @version 2, August 11, 2005 
 */
function removeLinks(str) {
    str = reReplace(str, "<[[:space:]]*[aA].*?>(.*?)<[[:space:]]*/[[:space:]]*a[[:space:]]*>","\1","all");
    return str;    
}