How can i access only the text of a comment? In the comment.tpl.php there is 

&lt;?php
    print render($content);
 ?&gt;


and this converts to this html

&lt;span rel="sioc:reply_of" resource="/drupal/?q=node/5" class="rdf-meta" data-thmr="thmr_44"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden" data-thmr="thmr_49"&gt;
 &lt;div class="field-items"&gt;
  &lt;div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"&gt;
   &lt;p&gt;THE COMMENT&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt; 
 &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;


What can i do if only want text "THE COMMENT" printed and not all this html?
I know $content is an array but can't find a way to dig into it's elements.
Install devel and try dpm($content);

This will give you an easy way to browse that array.