SAP C4C ABSL : Convert Rich text to Plain Text . Remove all HTML tags from the text.

[dhruv_mehta]

Dear All,

We know we can create KUT field of Type Formatted text, however sometimes we need the Plain Text from those Rich text field.

Scenarion : We needed to send the plain text from Rich Text to a third party WS ( Was a very old legacy system unable to parse HTML Tags).

Solution :

Created a Reuse Lib and Resue function : ( This wil be helpful to keep this kind of codes to be reused)

My Reuse function had one Import : String ( formatted text ) and a String as return ( plain Text).

Code :

import ABSL;

import AP.PDI.bo;



var result : DataType::String;

var stringTo = FORMATTEDTEXT;



if(!stringTo.IsInitial()){

	var strinWithoutTags = stringTo.ReplaceRegex("<[^>]*>","");

	result = strinWithoutTags;

	if( strinWithoutTags.Contains("&nbsp")){

		var final = strinWithoutTags.ReplaceRegex("&nbsp;","");

		result = final;

	}

}



return result;

 

So the Regex : “<[^>]*>”,””  , removed all the Tags and replaces them with “” .

Regex “&nbsp;”,””, removes all the &nsp; space.

You can play around with Regex with a website :

https://regexr.com/

I hope this helps a lot of deveopers to play around with Regex and a quick way to remove all the nasty html/ Rich text tags.

 

BR

Dhruvin