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Asked: 2026-06-02T20:26:13+00:00

I have some strings: $string1 = ‘<p><strong>Extract me</strong></p><p>Leave me</p>’; $string2 = ‘<strong>Extract me</strong>Leave me’;

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I have some strings:

$string1 = '<p><strong>Extract me</strong></p><p>Leave me</p>';
$string2 = '<strong>Extract me</strong>Leave me';
$string3 = '<span style="font-weight: bold">Extract me</span><br /><span>Leave me</span>';

Let’s check $string3:

The first tag of the string is <span>
So the text between the first <span> and the first </span> wants to be extracted.

Extracted shall mean: remove it from $stringX and save it into $extractedX

How would I do this?

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  1. Editorial Team
    [^>]*?(?=<\/.*>)

    What you should do is use an assertion. [^>]*? searches for any character that is NOT a >. This should be fine since if you need to use > as text, it would need to be escaped as &gt;. Then it searches for the first closing tag as denoted by <\/.*>. The (?=) around it tells the regex engine not to include it in the match.

    http://regexr.com?30pkm

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