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Lithium Alumni (Retired)

14 years ago

Stripping HTML from the message body returned by a rest call

I often want to truncate the message body returned by a REST call - sort of like making my own teaser. This quick little freemarker code will clean out any HTML (so I don't end up with unclosed tags...

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Have you run into any errors with this snippet due to the string being parsed being too long? I'm getting StackOverflowError: null errors in that case.

AdamN

Khoros Oracle

12 years ago

That's odd. I don't recall seeing anything like that before. How many characters is the string you're dealing with?

There's actually a newer method for truncating strings that you may want to check out to see if it works better for you:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/support-knowledge-base/Character-truncation-variables/ta-p/38324

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