Cleaning up RTF text

Question

I\'d like to take some RTF input and clean it to remove all RTF formatting except \\ul \\b \\i to paste it into Word with minor format information.

The command used

Answer 1

Regex it, it wont parse absolutely everything correctly (tables for example) but does the job in most cases.

string unformatted = Regex.Replace(rtfString, @"\{\*?\\[^{}]+}|[{}]|\\\n?[A-Za-z]+\n?(?:-?\d+)?[ ]?", "");

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