Removing All Links From Text With Anchor Text

I have a text it has <a href="http://www.com">Anchor</a/>
When i make it strip tags it gives "Anchor"
But i want to filter this too so it will remove full of this
<a href="http://www.com">Anchor</a/>
from text
I tried some codec preg_replace etc. but i couldn't do it . How can i do it ?

 

$text = preg_replace('~<a[^>]+>(.*?)</a>~si', null, $text);

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It works gr8 thank you

 

if i need to keep the link text: Anchor
what to do?

 

$text = preg_replace('~<a[^>]+>(.*?)>~si', null, $text);
$text = preg_replace('</a>', null, $text);

Try it

 

^ That's ugly... Try this instead:

$text = preg_replace('~<a[^>]+>(.*?)</a>~si', '$1', $text);

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