Regular Expression to Strip HTML Tags

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David Wright · Aug 29, 2016

I want to use the Regex Matcher to strip HTML tags, but I get a REGEX error. Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong?

set htmlSnippet = "<h1>Hello</h1>"
set regex = ##class(%Regex.Matcher).%New()
set regex.Text = htmlSnippet
set regex.Pattern = "<[^>]*>"
set plainText = regex.ReplaceAll(" ")
write !,plainText

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score 4 · Answer 1 · 2016-08-29T13:54:06-04:00

Add init parameters:

set htmlSnippet = "<h1>Hello</h1>"
set regex = ##class(%Regex.Matcher).%New("<[^>]*>", htmlSnippet)
set plainText = regex.ReplaceAll(" ")
write !,plainText