regex - Removing excess ">" in string in PHP -

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in code string have html tags so:

$string = '<div style="width:100px;">abc 1234 <span> test string, testing string</span></div>'; 

now, removed style attribute said string using preg_replace:

$string = preg_replace('/(<[^>]+) style=".*?"/i', '', $string); 

after removing style tag, managed remove style attribute div tag ended looking <div>. problem, encountered after doing excess > after closing tag span string looks now:

$string = '<div>abc 1234 <span> test string, testing string</span>   >     </div>'; 

my question is, why did exccess >? there different regular expression can use rid of style attribute without additional > appearing? or there way can ride of this?

i tried using str_replace twice so:

$string = str_replace("\n", "", $string); $string = str_replace(">>", ">", $string); 

but did not work either.

i not trying remove html tags, style part.

use string.

<?php $string = "<div style=\"width:100px;\">abc 1234 <span> test string, testing string</span></div>";  $string = strip_tags($string,"<span>");  $string = "<div>".$string."</div>"; ?> 

now string is:

<div>abc 1234 <span> test string, testing string</span></div>