* jaytea ignores everything Mpdreamz just said and proposes a regex soltn!

;D

this might be too basic for you Riamus, but the following is just a small expansion on $htmlfree which removes balanced tags nested inside other balanced tags (much like the type of regexes that handle nested parentheses)

Code:
alias htmlfree return $regsubex($1,/^[^<]*>|(<(?:[^<]|(?1))*>)|<.*$/gU,)


use it, build upon it, or ignore it ;p

"The only excuse for making a useless script is that one admires it intensely" - Oscar Wilde