How to remove HTML tags from strings?

Question

I am looking to remove a chunk out of a string dynamically, from the occurrence of one character < to the occurrence of another set of 2 characters />

Answer 1

How about:

$string = "<img src='blah.png' width="300" height="225" />There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don't look even slight...";
$new_string = preg_replace('/<.*?\/>/','',$string);

Still, if you're just parsing html tags, may regexp wouldn't be the best way to go. But if it's just removing some strings, then it may help.