From 408d53277f8e9d6113a65ba806df38d492d714b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: skodak <skodak>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:44:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] MDL-15823 format_string() improvements; merged from
 MOODLE_19_STABLE

---
 lib/weblib.php | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/weblib.php b/lib/weblib.php
index 9daa71ca2d..ed31605fa4 100644
--- a/lib/weblib.php
+++ b/lib/weblib.php
@@ -1609,9 +1609,12 @@ function format_string ($string, $striplinks=true, $courseid=NULL ) {
     if (!empty($CFG->formatstringstriptags)) {
         $string = strip_tags($string);
 
-    // Otherwise strip just links if that is required (default)
-    } else if ($striplinks) {  //strip links in string
-        $string = preg_replace('/(<a[^>]+?>)(.+?)(<\/a>)/is','$2',$string);
+    } else {
+        // Otherwise strip just links if that is required (default)
+        if ($striplinks) {  //strip links in string
+            $string = preg_replace('/(<a\s[^>]+?>)(.+?)(<\/a>)/is','$2',$string);
+        }
+        $string = clean_text($string);
     }
 
     //Store to cache
-- 
2.39.5