chg: refactored global strippedTags() method to JS

js/Global/stripTags.js

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+var stripTags = function (str) {
+  if (str === null) return str;
+
+  var chars = String(str).split('');
+  var charCounter = 0;
+  var inTag = false;
+
+  for (var i = 0, len = str.length; i < len; i += 1) {
+    if (chars[i] === '<') inTag = true;
+
+    if (!inTag) {
+      if (i > charCounter) {
+        chars[charCounter] = chars[i];
+      }
+
+      charCounter += 1;
+    }
+
+    if (chars[i] === '>') {
+      inTag = false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (i > charCounter) {
+    chars.length = charCounter;
+    return chars.join('');
+  }
+
+  return str;
+};
+