chickadee » regex » string-substitute*

Substitutes elements of STRING with string-substitute according to SMAP. SMAP should be an association-list where each element of the list is a pair of the form (MATCH . REPLACEMENT). Every occurrence of the regular expression MATCH in STRING will be replaced by the string REPLACEMENT

(string-substitute* "<h1>Hello, world!</h1>" '(("<[/A-Za-z0-9]+>" . "")))

=>  "Hello, world!"