replace values between specific characters

hi,

i have been trying to do the following but have not been successful. thanks in advance for helping!

- i have lots of text strings on one worksheet
- some text strings have <randomstring>, some even have multiple instances of <randomstring>, but others don't have a <randomstring> at all
- what i want is remove anything within "<" and ">", including the operators "<" and ">"

i have done this so far, with simple text functions, have each of the following lines in separate columns (text string column is "C"):
D1=SEARCH("<",C1)
E1=SEARCH(">",C1,D1)
F1=REPLACE(C1,1,E1, )

then because there might be multiple instances, i added:
G1=SEARCH("<",F1)
H1=SEARCH(">",F1,G1)
I1=REPLACE(F1,1,H1, )

problems and limitations of the above:
- don't know how to loop to remove more than 2 instances
- limited to removing "<" + "values within" + ">" from the beginning of the string only; don't know how to remove them if the "<randomstring>" is in the middle of the text string.

sorry for the long explanation. thanks for the help!

regards