Regular expression to remove HTML tags

In programming, we often encounter situations where we need to process HTML text. HTML tags are special elements in text. Sometimes we need to remove them and extract only the text content. At this time, regular expressions can be used to achieve this goal. Next, I will introduce in detail how to use regular expressions to remove HTML tags and provide corresponding source code examples.

First, we need to make it clear that fully parsing HTML using regular expressions is a very difficult task due to its complexity. However, if you just want to simply remove HTML tags without considering the nested relationship of HTML and other complex situations, regular expressions are a simple and effective solution.

Here is an example code that uses the re module in Python to remove HTML tags:

import re

def remove_html_tags(text):
    clean = re.compile('<.*?>')
    ret