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

You'll need several lines like this:

preg_replace('|(.+?)|', '$1', $text);
preg_replace('|(.+?)|', '$1', $text);
preg_replace('|(.+?)|', '$1', $text);

etc. Although if there's any possibility that the tags won't exactly match those regular expressions (which is usually the case, except for very simple machine-generated HTML), doing this with regular expressions becomes fiendishly complicated, and you'd be better off using a parser of some kind.