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How can i use regex to get the following. the matter within the tags might be alphabets,numbers & meta characters.

Input Srting : "<p>Hi </p><p>there</p>"

Expected output: "Hi<p>there</p>.

Julien Breuil
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Fusion
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    What are the rules? Remove first `

    `? Remove first tag? Remove all tags but not the last one? Remove any tag that contains at least one whitespace? Do the tags can contain attributes (e.g. `style=""`)?     – sp00m Jun 13 '12 at 12:30
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    Unless it's super simple and trivial, do not use regex to parse HTML. Try a HTML parser instead. – Bala R Jun 13 '12 at 12:34
  • Agree with Bala, unless looking for a particular tag, don't use regex -- it can be quite daunting to do so. If you are just looking to remove white space before the closing tag, then that is pretty simple. – Feuerwehrmann Jun 13 '12 at 12:36
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    [It reminds me something...](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/1225328) – sp00m Jun 13 '12 at 12:36

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Until futher specs arrive, use the following:

<p>(.)*?</p> and use the first (and only) group (.)*?

This matches <p> Hi </p> then use \1 to refference ' Hi '

IDKFA
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