PHP limit text string NOT including html tags?

Question

Here\'s what\'s NOT working for me:

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Answer 1

The easiest way would be to actually parse this into a DOM structure. You could use DOMDocument for that. Then you could simply go through the elements and make any changes to content.

Another approach would be to do a two-pass regex search and replace - first use the regex to find contents of tags, then use the regex to replace the contents with shortened contents. This can be achieved with your usual preg_* functions.