Question : I want to convert SQL field from HTML to Text

I have an Microsoft SQL server with a table that one of it's fields is HTML.
I need a way to convert it all to plain text

Answer : I want to convert SQL field from HTML to Text

I found a way
I wrote C## program that takes goes over the Table and strip from the field the HTML and make TXT out of it
It also replaces page break with Char(10) so I can use it in single line solutions
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public string StripHTMLB(string htmlString, string htmlPlaceHolder)
        {
            if (htmlString.Length == 0)
                return htmlString;
            if (htmlString.Length > 5 && htmlString.Substring(htmlString.Length - 6, 6) == "", stNewLine);
            htmlString = htmlString.Replace("
", stNewLine);
            htmlString = htmlString.Replace("
", stNewLine);
            htmlString = htmlString.Replace(((char)13).ToString(), stNewLine);
            htmlString = htmlString.Replace(stNewLine + stNewLine, stNewLine);
            htmlString = htmlString.Replace(",", ".");
            htmlString = htmlString.Replace("&", "&");
            htmlString = htmlString.Replace(""", "\"");
            htmlString = htmlString.Replace("'", "'");
            htmlString = htmlString.Replace("(", "(");
            htmlString = htmlString.Replace(")", ")");
            htmlString = htmlString.Replace("

", stNewLine);
            htmlString = htmlString.Replace(" ", "");
            htmlString = htmlString.Replace(">", ">");
            htmlString = htmlString.Replace("<", "<");
 
            htmlString = htmlString.Replace(stNewLine, "{*}");
 
            string pattern = @"<[styleSTYLE]+(.)*?";
            htmlString = Regex.Replace(htmlString, pattern, htmlPlaceHolder);
            pattern = @"<[headHEAD]+(.)*?";
            htmlString = Regex.Replace(htmlString, pattern, htmlPlaceHolder);
            pattern = @"<(.)*?>";
            htmlString = Regex.Replace(htmlString, pattern, htmlPlaceHolder);
            htmlString = htmlString.Replace("{*}", stNewLine);
            htmlString = htmlString.Replace("\"", "'");
 
            while (htmlString.Length > 0 && htmlString.Substring(0, 1) == "\n")
            {
                htmlString = htmlString.Substring(1,htmlString.Length -1);
            }
 
            return htmlString;
        }
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