# Add a String Length Action & Strip/Replace HTML Action

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/add-a-string-length-action-strip-replace-html-action/4757
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [October 26, 2009, 7:32am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/add-a-string-length-action-strip-replace-html-action/4757 "2009-10-26T07:32:39Z")
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### Author: ![sexy-trousers](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/sexy-trousers/32/97_2.png) [@sexy-trousers](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/sexy-trousers)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2009, 7:32am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/add-a-string-length-action-strip-replace-html-action/4757/1 "2009-10-26T07:32:39Z")

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It would be great to a a simple action to return the lenght of a string rather than dropping t script...

Also an action to strip all (or selectively)&nbsp;html/xml tags would be useful. Also to be able to substitute the tags (with or without affecting the text contained in the tags), i.e. the goal being able to strip all html tags and upper case text between \< i \> tags etc.

TJ

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### Author: ![deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/deleted_user/32/937_2.png) [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2010, 5:03am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/add-a-string-length-action-strip-replace-html-action/4757/2 "2010-02-01T05:03:40Z")

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That might be possible using a simple XSLT file. But that requires that the input be XHTML… tidy.exe might help. But having some combination of the two would be nice in an action package.