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<?php $string = '&lt;a href="http://lenta.ru/news/2015/07/23/tsipras/" &gt; &amp;laquo;Лента.ру&amp;raquo; &lt;/a&gt;'; $aq = preg_replace('~&lt;a\b[^&gt;]*+&gt;|&lt;/a\b[^&gt;]*+&gt;~', '', $string); echo $aq; echo '<br /><br /><br />'.strip_tags($string, '<a>');
Output for 4.3.0 - 4.3.11, 4.4.0 - 4.4.9, 5.0.0 - 5.0.5, 5.1.0 - 5.1.6, 5.2.0 - 5.2.17, 5.3.0 - 5.3.29, 5.4.0 - 5.4.45, 5.5.0 - 5.5.38, 5.6.0 - 5.6.40, 7.0.0 - 7.0.33, 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.28, 8.2.0 - 8.2.18, 8.3.0 - 8.3.6
&lt;a href="http://lenta.ru/news/2015/07/23/tsipras/" &gt; &amp;laquo;Лента.ру&amp;raquo; <br /><br /><br />&lt;a href="http://lenta.ru/news/2015/07/23/tsipras/" &gt; &amp;laquo;Лента.ру&amp;raquo; &lt;/a&gt;
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295.45 ms | 406 KiB | 459 Q