php - How to remove html tag using regular expression?

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value of $attributes['st_title'] is <a href="/physical-design-engineers">Physical Design Engineers</a>

I want to remove <a href="/physical-design-engineers"> and </a>. The final expected output is: $attributes['st_title'] = Physical Design Engineers

I am trying as follows:

    $pattern[0] = "/<a.[^>]+>/";
    $pattern[1] = '/</a>/';

    $replacement[1] = '';
    $replacement[0] = '';
    $attributes['st_title'] = preg_replace( $pattern, $replacement, $attributes['st_title'] );

But it sets $attributes['st_title'] as empty. Any idea?

Better option ~ [How do you parse and process HTML/XML in PHP?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/how-do-you-parse-and-process-html-xml-in-php) — Phil, Mar 27 '18 at 06:01

Alive to die - Anant · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-27T06:06:36.367

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Since you want text only from the link, so use strip_tags()

echo strip_tags($text);

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edited Mar 27 '18 at 06:06

answered Mar 27 '18 at 06:01

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 27 '18 at 06:28

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Use php strip_tags()

or

preg_replace("/<.*?>/", "", $attributes['st_title']);

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answered Mar 27 '18 at 06:00

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