How to display the_excerpt stripped of html tags?

Question

PHP

By default, the_excerpt() outputs 50 lines from the article, and appends to the tags and ends with [...].
You need to make sure that the_excerpt() outputs just text, without any html tags.
Tried like this:

$text = the_excerpt();
echo strip_tags($text);

But it didn't give any results.

Answer 1

echo get_the_excerpt()