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I have a long HTML file and I need to remove all the `<img />` tags inside it and all the `<a><img /></a>` anchors.

What I'm thinking of is writing a PHP script that does the job. But each image and link has different number attributes so I don't know how I can do this neatly. Any help would be strongly appreciated.