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Help needed :Search and Replace a string pattern with empty in an xml file in unix

Search and Replace a string pattern with empty in an xml file in unix:

My xml file would be like this :

<Accounts><Name>Harish</Name><mobile>90844444444444445999 </mobile><TRIG>srcujim-1</TRIG></Accounts><Accounts><Name>Satish</Name><mobile>908999</mobile><TRIG>ettertrtt-1</TRIG></Accounts>

I basically need to search for the tag starting with <TRIG> and ending with </TRIG>. The intermediate sting data between these 2 stings may be upto length of 255 chars.
and i need to replace the entire string pattern with empty.

For ex : <TRIG>srcujim-1</TRIG> to empty and
<TRIG>ettertrtt-1</TRIG> to empty.

So my final output ml shud look something like this :

<Accounts><Name>Harish</Name><mobile>90844444444444445999</mobile></Accounts><Accounts><Name>Satish</Name><mobile>908999</mobile></Accounts>

There might be several such string patterns or tags in this xml and i need to remove all the tags from my xml.

Please help me to achieve this.

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mb_eregi_replace

MB_EREGI_REPLACE(3)							 1						       MB_EREGI_REPLACE(3)

mb_eregi_replace - Replace regular expression with multibyte support ignoring case

SYNOPSIS

       string mb_eregi_replace (string	$pattern, string  $replace, string  $string, [string  $option = "msri"])

DESCRIPTION

	Scans $string for matches to $pattern, then replaces the matched text with $replacement.

PARAMETERS

	      o $pattern
		- The regular expression pattern. Multibyte characters may be used. The case will be ignored.

	      o $replace
		- The replacement text.

	      o $string
		- The searched string.

	      o $option
		-$option has the same meaning as in mb_ereg_replace(3).

RETURN VALUES

	The resultant string or FALSE on error.

NOTES

       Note

	      The  internal  encoding  or the character encoding specified by mb_regex_encoding(3) will be used as the character encoding for this
	      function.

       Warning

	      Never use the e modifier when working on untrusted input. No automatic escaping will happen (as  known  from  preg_replace(3)).  Not
	      taking care of this will most likely create remote code execution vulnerabilities in your application.

SEE ALSO

       mb_regex_encoding(3), mb_ereg_replace(3).

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