Remove all label tags inside a string

Question

I want to remove all label tags from a string.

This is the input string.


Contact Us


    
        
            Full Name
            [First name] [Last name]
        
        
            Telephone
            [Phone]
        
        
            Email
  [Email]
        
        
            Message
            [
Your Message]
        
        
            Company
            [Company]

The label tag needs to be removed but value inside the string should not be removed

First name will become First name

Phone will become Phone

Email will become Email

Your Message will become Your Message

Company will become Company

I tried the following regex [Regex]::Match( $text, '(?s)' ).Groups.Value but its not working.

Any suggestions would be appreciated

Thanks in advance

user_15339544 · Answer

This regex could work, you can use the -replace operator instead of the call to Regex.Replace:

(Get-Content path	o\file -Raw) -replace '([a-z ]+)', '$1'

See https://regex101.com/r/3gbJEp/1 for details.

user_1701026 · Answer

It is generally a bad idea to attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions.
Instead use a dedicated HTML parser as the HtmlDocument class

Example

function ParseHtml($String) {
    $Unicode = [System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetBytes($String)
    $Html = New-Object -Com 'HTMLFile'
    if ($Html.PSObject.Methods.Name -Contains 'IHTMLDocument2_Write') {
        $Html.IHTMLDocument2_Write($Unicode)
    } else {
        $Html.write($Unicode)
    }
    $Html.Close()
    $Html
}

$Html = ParseHtml ' # Your Html
    
    ...
    
 
'

$Html.getElementsByTagName('label') |ForEach-Object { $Null = $_.removeNode() }
$Html.body.innerHtml





Full Name
[First name] [Last name]

Telephone
[Phone]

Email
[Email]

Message
[ Your Message]

Company
[Company]

Remove all label tags inside a string

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