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copied!<p>I have string named $post (for example) which contain data bellow. I want to remove lines until first "TEXT" (I don't know how many tags will there be so no exact lines are possible). I also want to remove all lines bellow last "TEXT". </p> <pre><code><div id="content"> <div class="date">2013-02-11 16:19:57</div> <h2 class="storytitle"><a href="p.php?slug=SOMESLUG">PRPHAHAHAH</a></h2>  <div class="tags"><a href="/tag/">slug1</a> <a href="/tag/">slug2</a> <a href="/tag/">slug3</a> </div>TEXT<br /> TEXT<br /> TEXT<br /> TEXT<br /> TEXT<br /> <br /> <pre><code>1 2 3 4 5 </code></pre><br /> <br /> TEXT <p id="comments" class="separator-story">  </p> </div> </code></pre> <p>The only thing I want to have in my string is this:</p> <pre><code>TEXT<br /> TEXT<br /> TEXT<br /> TEXT<br /> TEXT<br /> <br /> <pre><code>1 2 3 4 5 </code></pre><br /> <br /> TEXT </code></pre> <p>Note: </p> <ul> <li>I don't know how many tags user will have, nor how many lines I have to remove from start, which at the end mean I don't know where first "TEXT" start. </li> <li>I don't know how huge post will be, nor from where do I start deleting. </li> <li>I only know that there are 5 lines at the end that I need them removed. I only know that tags finish with and last lines start with <li>I don't know what will be first letter/word of the text I need to extract (TEXT is just example)</li> </ul> <p>Reference:<br> <a href="http://php.net/explode" rel="nofollow">Explode (PHP)</a><br> <a href="http://php.net/array_slice" rel="nofollow">Array Slice (PHP)</a></p>

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