String Handling in ABAP - Removing Unwanted Char

I am importing data from a file and the string data has HTML tags in the description example Line Clearance, how I can programmatically strip the tags away and just leave the text?

The code for this String Handling

<br /><br /><ft><h><t> Line Clearance </></></>.<br /></p><p>

REPORT zstring.

DATA : ipstr TYPE string.
DATA : opstr TYPE string.
DATA : len TYPE i VALUE 0.
DATA : ch TYPE char1.
DATA : num TYPE i VALUE 0. "No of Characters to be taken
DATA : pos TYPE char3. "Position of Char in the Input String

*Input string
ipstr = '<ft><h><t> Line Clearance </></></>' .

*Removing only ""

REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF '' IN ipstr WITH ' '.

*Removing only "<"

REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF '<' IN ipstr WITH ' '.

CONDENSE ipstr.

*Length of Input String

len = STRLEN( ipstr ).

DO len TIMES.

*Char by Char

ch = ipstr+pos(1).

pos = pos + 1.

*Scan each char in input String for ">"

FIND '>' IN ch IGNORING CASE.

IF sy-subrc = 0.

num = len - pos.

*Output String

opstr = ipstr+pos(num).

ENDIF.

ENDDO.

WRITE :/ opstr.