Regex ignore matches between [removed] tags

Question

I apologise as I have very little knowledge about Regex and I don\'t even understand exactly what this regex is doing (I didn\'t write it - source) apart from the fact it se

Answer 1

You mentioned in a comment that it would be acceptable to remove script tags before performing the search.

$data = preg_replace('/<\s*script.*?\/script\s*>/iu', '', $data);

This code may help with that.