title: Removing <a href > tag using regex
body: <p>I want to extract the plain text from given HTML code. I tried using <code>regex</code> and got</p>
  
  <p><code>String target = val.replaceAll("&lt;a.*&lt;/a&gt;", "");</code>.</p>
  
  <p>My main requirement is I want remove everything between <code>&lt;a&gt;</code> and  <code>&lt;/a&gt;</code> (including the Link name). While using the above code all other contents also removed. </p>
  
  <p><code>&lt;a href="www.google.com"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;</code> <strong>This is a Google Link</strong></p>
  
  <p><code>&lt;a href="www.yahoo.com"&gt;Yahoo&lt;/a&gt;</code> <strong>This is a Yahoo Link</strong></p>
  
  <p>Here I want to remove the values between <code>&lt;a&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;/a&gt;</code>. 
  Final output should </p>
  
  <p><code>This is a Google Link  This is a Yahoo Link</code></p>