PHP - remove everything between these two sets of strings

Question

I have the below piece of html which is PHP generated, I would like to be able to remove everything between these two pieces of strings <p and p&gt

<li class="level1 nav-2-1 first">
    <a href="http://dev.example.com/women/"><span>Women &lt;p style=&quot;color:#73bf43;display: inline-block;font-size: 10px;&quot;&gt;- NEW&lt;/p&gt;</span></a>
</li>
<li class="level1 nav-2-2">
    <a href="http://dev.example.com/men"><span>Men&lt;p style=&quot;color: #73bf43; display: inline-block; font-size: 10px;&quot;&gt;- &lt;strong&gt;NEW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</span></a>
</li>

So far I've tried variations of the below:

preg_replace('/&lt.*?\p&gt|\s*/', '', $_input)

Where $_input is the string of html above.

You can also use $_input = strip_tags(html_entity_decode($_input)) it will remove all the html tags. — Ersin Demirtas, Jan 13 '18 at 14:42
For regex, use something like https://regex101.com/ or http://www.phpliveregex.com/ to experiment. — EastSw, Jan 13 '18 at 14:51
@Holly I always did love a good story; just as long as there's a happy ending *heh!* ;-) — Funk Forty Niner, Jan 13 '18 at 15:02

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 13 '18 at 14:42

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Try this

$replaced = preg_replace('/&lt;p.*?p&gt;/', '', $data);

answered Jan 13 '18 at 14:42

Harald Nordgren

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