I need a php regular expression that replaces one tag with another

Question

Here is what I need to be able to do:

I need to match the following tag:

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Answer 1

DO NOT USE REGULAR EXPRESSIONS TO PARSE HTML

do not use regular expressions to parse HTML

do not use regular expressions to parse HTML

do not use regular expressions to parse HTML

do not use regular expressions to parse HTML

do not use regular expressions to parse HTML

do you need more clarification?

Use DomDocument::LoadFromHTML ;)