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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1000539 More actions · Answer 1

dbishop (10/7/2015)

I know it has been quite some time since this was posted, but I have a question. The code is looking for an EXACT match to the start tag. However, if you have additional info (e.g. <span style=...> or <div class=...> and </span> or </div> you get a parsing error.

Is there any way to avoid that? I've found some code that parses character by character but we know that is, like 🙁

I know it's not the answer you wanted but the absolute best way would be to have the app that spawned it to parse it and provide it in a more normal form.

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g.powers SSC Enthusiast Points: 155 More actions · Answer 2

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October 21, 2016 at 7:46 am

#1907960

I recently had the same requirement and wrote a function which strips HTML tags and entities regardless of any additional information. I posted the code here at Stack Overflow

I hope it is of help to someone.

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286562 More actions · Answer 3

g.powers (10/21/2016)

I recently had the same requirement and wrote a function which strips HTML tags and entities regardless of any additional information. I posted the code here at Stack Overflow

I hope it is of help to someone.

You should look at the solutions posted in this thread. Yours is a good solution but the performance is going to be pretty painful. You have a scalar function with a while loop. The solutions posted here are set based and will be crazy fast in comparison.

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barry.l.daniel Grasshopper Points: 14 More actions · Answer 4

Really stupid question, how do I apply the function? I need to strip html from one column in a table (rq_req_comment).



  FROM [test_domain_dgps_export_db].




.[REQ] r



  where r.rq_req_comment like '<html>%');  



exec dbo.udf_striphtml @HTMLText

]
I get an error:
Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression.

Thanks

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286562 More actions · Answer 5

barry.l.daniel - Thursday, February 22, 2018 12:26 PM

Really stupid question, how do I apply the function? I need to strip html from one column in a table (rq_req_comment).
FROM [test_domain_dgps_export_db]. .[REQ] r where r.rq_req_comment like '<html>%'); exec dbo.udf_striphtml @HTMLText
]
I get an error:
Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression.

Thanks

The problem isn't the function it is your code. When you use SET to assign a variable and use a query to get the value that error is returned when the query returns more than 1 row. In other words you have more than 1 row in test_domain_dgps_export with a comment that starts with <html>. How could the query engine know which row you want?

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