You could also look at How do I remove HTML from a string?, for a less error prone, but not failproof approach.
Please note that this snippet won't work in all case, especially when badly/oddly formatted HTML is used!!
<kbd>--In reply to Re: HTML Tag Stripper
by OeufMayo
in thread HTML Tag Stripper
by Anonymous Monk
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