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Hi i have an excel sheet that was exported directly form a Database. This includes various strings some of which are html tags. I want to delete all the link tags example

(<a href="mylink" target="_blank">

but keep all the other strings intact. I was trying to do this with a find and replace but i cannot figure out a Regex that will do this and also work in excel.
I have scoured the net but was not able to find a solution to this.

If i do this

<a href*>

it will delete almost all the content of the spreadsheet because it goes to the last closing tag it can find.
Is there a way to redo my search so that it gets the next closing tag and not the last one?

The easiest i.e. only, good way I know of is by use of Lynx, the old text mode web browser:
lynx --dump URL_or_HTML-file

- but then, you need to find a way to run it on Windows (e.g. cygwin, or WSL).

Oh... one more thing: You should realize; what you're asking for is essentially a web browser in its full glory.

lynx is that, even with its inherent limitations and shortcomings.

Example:

$ lynx --dump www.google.se



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   1. http://www.google.se/imghp?hl=sv&tab=wi

   2. http://maps.google.se/maps?hl=sv&tab=wl

   3. https://play.google.com/?hl=sv&tab=w8

   4. http://www.youtube.com/?gl=SE&tab=w1

   5. http://news.google.se/nwshp?hl=sv&tab=wn

   6. https://mail.google.com/mail/?tab=wm

   7. https://drive.google.com/?tab=wo

   8. https://www.google.se/intl/sv/about/products?tab=wh

   9. http://www.google.se/history/optout?hl=sv

  10. http://www.google.se/preferences?hl=sv

  11. https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?hl=sv&passive=true&continue=http://www.google.se/

  12. http://www.google.se/advanced_search?hl=sv&authuser=0

  13. http://www.google.se/language_tools?hl=sv&authuser=0

  14. http://www.google.se/setprefs?sig=0_aqHPilDIYLLsVqHCw93WtOpJW0k=&hl=en&source=homepage&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwifvrHulZHgAhXGjywKHVziBaIQ2ZgBCAQ

  15. http://www.google.se/intl/sv/ads/

  16. http://www.google.se/intl/sv/services/

  17. https://plus.google.com/103822168634868962761

  18. http://www.google.se/intl/sv/about.html

  19. http://www.google.se/setprefdomain?prefdom=US&sig=K_KnzY40g4UTDMelz-_ON-EEbQQGM=

  20. http://www.google.se/intl/sv/policies/privacy/

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