Remove formatting tags from string body of email

Question

How do you remove all formatting tags when calling:

GmailApp.getInboxThreads()[0].getMessages()[0].getBody()

such that the only remainder o

Answer 1

Google now has the getPlainBody() function that will get the plain text from the body of an email. It is in the text class.

I had been using a script to send emails to convert them to tasks and google broke it with a change to the functionality of Corey's answer above. I've replaced it with the following.

var taskNote = ((thread.getMessages()[0]).getPlainBody()).substring(0,1000);