how to get excerpt without p html tag from wordpress post

Question

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am trying to use this code to pull the excerpt (first 33 characters of my post) <?php echo excerpt(33); ?> but it ended up leaving an empty space.

the theme am using is using

Answer 1

Please add below code in theme functions.php

remove_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'wpautop' );