How to remove the <a> tags only from a text?

Greetings all, I have a text that may contains the <a></a> tags something like :

hello this is a link <a href="www.google.com"> www.google.com </a> p开发者_如何转开发lease visit it.

I want to remove those tags and keep the text between them to be like:

hello this is a link  www.google.com  please visit it.

, how to do ?

For just the <a> and </a> tags

String source = "<a>blargle</a>";
source.replaceAll( "</?a>", "" );

If you mean <a> tags with other attributes then you would need

String source = "<a>blargle</a>";
source.replaceAll( "</?a[^>]*>", "" );

String str="<a>sadasd</a>";
str.replaceAll("<a>","").replaceAll("</a>","");//sadasd

Or

 str.replaceAll("</?a>","");//sadasd

Or the best way is to go for Jsoup Cleaner

        String str = "hello this is a link <a href='www.google.com'> www.google.com </a> please visit it";
        String safe = Jsoup.clean(str, Whitelist.simpleText());
        System.out.println(safe);//hello this is a link  www.google.com  please visit it

System.out.println(s.replaceAll("</?a>", ""));

Here you go: str.replaceAll("</?a>","")

if (message.contains("<a href=")) {
    message = message.replaceAll("(.*)?<a.*?>", "").replaceAll("</a>", "");
}

Generally, it is a bad idea to fix HTML with a regular expression - for a discussion see the top answer here Using regular expressions to parse HTML: why not? - even though it looks like it might just be quick . Try instead to use a DOM parser in your language of choice and just replace the node with its child text node.