Remove anchors from text

Question

I need to remove anchor tags from some text, and can\'t seem to be able to do it using regex.
Just the anchor tags, not their content.
For instance,

Answer 1

Have a try with:

$str = '
paragraph
google -> foo
In the div
';
// first, extract anchor tag
preg_match("~~", $str, $match);
// then strip the HTML tags
echo strip_tags($match[0]),"\n";

output:

google -> foo