Find multiple patterns with a single preg_match_all in PHP

Question

Using PHP and preg_match_all I\'m trying to get all the HTML content between the following tags (and the tags also):

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Answer 1

While doable with regular expressions, you could simplify the task by using one of the simpler HTML parser toolkits. For example with phpQuery or QueryPath it's as simple as:

qp($html)->find("p, ul, table")->text();   // or loop over them