How can I mass delete tags like these in a document using PHP preg_replace?
<text:alphabetical-index-mark-start text:id="IMark169843024"/>
The only thing that is different from one to another is the number after IMark.
Thank you!
This is something you can fine-tune to whatever you need. But in general terms you can do something like this:
$string = preg_replace('~<text:.*?>~', '', $string);
Or you can filter it all the way down with something like this:
$string = preg_replace('~<text:alphabetical-index-mark-start text:id="IMark\d{9}"/>~', '', $string);
Either way, it'll be pretty easy to strip these tags out.