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Old 06-19-2014
Convert posix regex to pcre (perl)

In order to clean file from html tags i used the following
Code:
sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' filename

Right now i need to do the same from php script so i have to use pcre. How to convert?
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Old 06-19-2014
In perl it is either the same, or you can use the ? modifier (ninimum match)
Code:
perl -pe 's/<.*?>//g' file

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