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 (&#106;&#97;&#114;&#101;&#100;&#64;&#119;&#101;&#98;&#45;&#114;&#101;&#108;&#101;&#118;&#97;&#110;&#116;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#109;) 
 @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>