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+// Copyright © 2014 Steve Francia <spf@spf13.com>.
+//
+// Licensed under the Simple Public License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+// http://opensource.org/licenses/Simple-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package helpers
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+func StripHTML(s string) string {
+	output := ""
+
+	// Shortcut strings with no tags in them
+	if !strings.ContainsAny(s, "<>") {
+		output = s
+	} else {
+		s = strings.Replace(s, "\n", " ", -1)
+		s = strings.Replace(s, "</p>", " \n", -1)
+		s = strings.Replace(s, "<br>", " \n", -1)
+		s = strings.Replace(s, "</br>", " \n", -1)
+
+		// Walk through the string removing all tags
+		b := new(bytes.Buffer)
+		inTag := false
+		for _, r := range s {
+			switch r {
+			case '<':
+				inTag = true
+			case '>':
+				inTag = false
+			default:
+				if !inTag {
+					b.WriteRune(r)
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		output = b.String()
+	}
+	return output
+}