[Resolved] remove html with regular expresions

[hermzz]

I've looked everywhere and I've read a whole bunch of articles on regular expresions but I still can't get the hang of it.

I need to eliminate all html tags from a string, I've tried this

<{1}/?[[:alpha:]]>{1}

but it doesn't seem to work.

It should recieve something like:

text text text <a href='http://somewhere' class='up_link'>somewhere</a> text text text

and return
text text text somewhere text text text

[Shrike]

Heres the one from my form parser lib, it removes anything within < ... > 🙂

$field = preg_replace("/<([^>]|\n)*>/","",$field);

[laserlight]

If that's all you want, then you might as well use [man]strip_tags/man.

[hermzz]

Oh ok thanks to you both.