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using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace CA.Common.Text
{
    public static class HtmlHelper
    {
        public static string RemoveHtmlComments(string input)
        {
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(input))
            {
                // using a non greedy regex to get all the html or xml style comments out of the text 
                Regex htmlCommentStripper = new Regex("(<!--((?!-->).)*-->)", RegexOptions.Singleline); 
                return htmlCommentStripper.Replace(input, string.Empty);
            }
            else
            {
                // the string is null or is empty so just return the string as is..
                return input;
            }
        }

        public static string RemoveHtmlTags(string input, string tagToRemove)
        {
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(input))
            {
                string regexexp = string.Format(@"<{0}>.*</{0}>", tagToRemove);
                // using a non greedy regex to get all the html or xml style comments out of the text 
                Regex htmlCommentStripper = new Regex(regexexp, RegexOptions.Singleline);
                return htmlCommentStripper.Replace(input, string.Empty);
            }
            else
            {
                // the string is null or is empty so just return the string as is..
                return input;
            }

        }
    }
}