regular expression help needed

$str = 'I just finished work yey! <img src="style_emoticons/%3C#EMO_DIR#%3E/smile.gif" style="vertical-align: middle;" emoid="" alt="smile.gif" border="0">....';

how do I remove the whole img tag there using regular expression thanks

 

You don't need regexp here (IIUIC) - use strip_tags:
http://php.net/strip_tags

 

If you just want to remove html tag only then use strip_tags is good for you but if there have other tag that strip_tags is not work then regex may help

 

I want to remove that from the string so that when I output the string it the image will not appear...