Regular Expression Help

[chronister]

Not sure if this should go explicitly in the regex section, but here goes. I am trying to wrap my brain around these things and I just cannot seem to do it. I am looking to essentially remove everything contained in between

<i></i>

tags as well as the tags themselves. An example of these code snippets are below.

 

example 1

<i>
Written by
<a href="/SearchPlotWriters?%[email protected]%7D">{[email protected]}</a>
</i>

example 2

<i>
Written by
<a href="/SearchPlotWriters?Scott%20Huntsman%20%[email protected]%7D">Scott Huntsman {[email protected]}</a>
</i>

 

I found an awesome IMDB class, and I am modifying it to insert data into a database. I want to get rid of the Written by section of the plots

 

Any help would be appreciated. Regex syntax is mind-boggling to me right now.

[monk.e.boy]

preg_match('/(.+?)<i>.+?<\/i>(.+)/s', $subject, $regs)

 

You need to grab group one (everything before the < i >) and group two (everything after the </ i >) and + them together.

 

Then