Removing the <a> tag with regex

[BillyBoB]

I'm need to remove the <a> tag from any text but leave all other tags.

The <a> tag could include any possible attributes including those like id, class, or href. If you can help me that would be great or just point me in the right direction.

I have been working on this for hours still nothing comes up.

 

[Orio]

<?php

$str = 'Some <b>Text </b><span><a href="1.html">
11</a><A href="1.htm">
ewfwm</a></span> <u>Hello</u>';

$pattern = "/<a ?.*<\/a>/si";
$replacement = "";
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $str);

?>

 

Orio.