how to remove a tag and its contents using regular expression?
php, regex
Solution
If `MY_TAG` can not be nested, try this to get the matches:
preg_match_all('/<MY_TAG>(.*?)<\/MY_TAG>/s', $str, $matches)
And to remove them, use `preg_replace` instead.
Problem
$str = 'some text tag contents more text '; My questions are: How to retrieve content `tag <em>contents </em>` which is between `<MY_TAG> .. </MY_TAG>`? And How to remove `<MY_TAG>` and its contents from `$str`? I am using PHP. Thank you.