How to modify the_excerpt

I am using the excerpt as

<?php the_excerpt( __( '(More ...)' , 'p2' ) ); ?>

but alas, its actually not stripping the <br /> and the <p> tags

??

@uttamtakalkar – the formatting.php uses strip_tags only and its not stripping the paragraphs and the line breaks in my excerpts.

and clues?

Try get_the_excerpt(). It worked for me!