Removing HTML blocks

[Shawazi]

Here is a test of my code that does not work using ereg_replace

$a = "1 < abc > 2";
echo $a;
echo "<br>";
$a =  ereg_replace("^(<)[.]+(>)$",'',$a);
echo $a;

Isn't this saying if it begins with < and then has one or more of any character and ends with > ? The ereg_replace does nothing as of now.

[khjart]

I don't think you need the ^ and the $. Also, the puntuation mark is greedy.
This seems to work fine:

$a = ereg_replace("(<)([^>]+)(>)",'',$a);

Edit: This came slightly out the wrong way, with additional spaces behind < and >, like your post probably did too.