title: Regular expression for remove html links
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6173/regular-expression-for-parsing-links-from-a-webpage">Regular expression for parsing links from a webpage?</a><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags">RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags</a>  </p>
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  <p>i need a regular expression to strip html <code>&lt;a&gt;</code> tags , here is sample:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="xxxx" class="yyy" title="zzz" ...&gt; link &lt;/a&gt;
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  <p>should be converted to</p>
  
  <pre><code> link
  </code></pre>