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Say I have the following text
..(content).............
<A HREF="http://foo.com/content" >blah blah blah </A>
...(continue content)...
I want to delete the link and I want to delete the tag (while keeping the text in between). How do I do this with a regular expression (since the URLs will all be different)
Much thanks
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PHP provides an inbuilt function to remove the HTML tags from the data. The strip_tags() function is an inbuilt function in PHP that removes the strings form HTML, XML and PHP tags. It accepts two parameters. This function returns a string with all NULL bytes, HTML, and PHP tags stripped from a given $str.
The HTML tags can be removed from a given string by using replaceAll() method of String class. We can remove the HTML tags from a given string by using a regular expression. After removing the HTML tags from a string, it will return a string as normal text.
A regular expression is a sequence of characters that forms a search pattern. When you search for data in a text, you can use this search pattern to describe what you are searching for. A regular expression can be a single character, or a more complicated pattern.
This will remove all tags:
preg_replace("/<.*?>/", "", $string);
This will remove just the <a> tags:
preg_replace("/<\\/?a(\\s+.*?>|>)/", "", $string);
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