Hello, I have string `val string = "Welcome<br>how are you?"` when I am trying to regex ```st...

# android

[KotlinLeaner]

Hello, I have string
val string = "Welcome<br>how are you?"
when I am trying to regex

string?.replace("\\<.*?\\>", " ");

it's not working. It returning same string. Anyone know how to fix this problem?

[Chrimaeon]

you are missing a toRegex()

string.replace("\\<.*?\\>".toRegex(), " ")

your implementation is just a string replacement.

[Chrimaeon]

and if you use the """ multiline string. you can omit the escape characters.

string.replace("""<.*?>""".toRegex(), " ")

[KotlinLeaner]

ohh nice thank you

[Robert Williams]

Since you’re asking in #android maybe a better solution to what you’re actually trying to do is https://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/Html#fromHtml(java.lang.String) ?