using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
public static void Main()
Console.WriteLine(Html2PlainText.Decode("<html><body><div>Some neat text</div><body></html>")); public static class Html2PlainText
private static readonly Regex NonExplicitLines = new Regex("\\r|\\n", RegexOptions.Multiline | RegexOptions.Compiled); private static readonly Regex DivEndings = new Regex("</div>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled); private static readonly Regex LineBreaks = new Regex("</br\\s*>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled); private static readonly Regex Tags = new Regex("<[^>]*>", RegexOptions.Compiled); public static string Decode(string html)
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(html))
var decoded = html.Trim();
decoded = NonExplicitLines.Replace(decoded, string.Empty);
decoded = DivEndings.Replace(decoded, Environment.NewLine);
decoded = LineBreaks.Replace(decoded, Environment.NewLine);
decoded = Tags.Replace(decoded, string.Empty).Trim();
return WebUtility.HtmlDecode(decoded);
private static bool HasTags(string str)
return str.StartsWith("<") && str.EndsWith(">");
