Php replace string with regex

Question

I want replace in my file all tags "<_tag_>" with "".
I've tried this solutions:

1. $_text = preg_replace('<\\_\\s*\\w.*?\\_>', '', $_text);
   But I replace "<_tag_>" with "<>"

2. $_text = preg_replace('<\\_(.*?)\\_>', '', $_text);
   But I replace "<_tag_>" with "<>"

How can I also select angle brackets?

Answer 1

It could be

<_.+?_>
# <_, anything lazily afterwards, followed by _>

In PHP :

$string = preg_replace('~<_.+?_>~', '', $string);

As in

<?php
$string = "some <_tag_> here";
$string = preg_replace('~<_.+?_>~', '', $string);
echo $string;
# some  here
?>

See a demo on ideone.com .