title: Can you help with a regular expression or function to remove HTML encoded tags?
body: <p>I need a regex or function that can remove the ENCODED HTML tags from a database record.  I have text in a database that is being stored (from TinyMCE) as encoded HTML.</p>
  
  <p>The code has the 'less than'; and 'greater than'; tags encoded.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to remove all the encoded tags and HTML and just leave the plain text and spaces only.</p>