I'm trying to get a regular expression to replace all the links out of a text string for the value of the link.

A link may look like these: 

<a href="http://whatever" id="an_id" rel="a_rel">the link</a>
<a href="/absolute_url/whatever" id="an_id" rel="a_rel">the link</a>

I want a regular expression that I get: the link

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