Cleaning up RTF text

Question posted 2008 · +8 upvotes

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 to paste into Word will be something like: oWord.ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.Selection.PasteAndFormat(0) (with some RTF text already in the Clipboard)

{rtf1ansideff0{fonttbl{f0fnilfcharset0 Courier New;}}
{colortbl ;red255green255blue140;}
viewkind4uc1pardhighlight1lang3084f0fs18 The company is a global leader in responsible tourism and was ul the first major hotel chain in North Americaulnone  to embrace environmental stewardship within its daily operationshighlight0par

Do you have any idea on how I can clean up the RTF safely with some regular expressions or something? I am using VB.NET to do the processing but any .NET language sample will do.