Strip all HTML tags except links

by 
<(?!\/?a(?=>|\s.*>))\/?.*?>

Try this. Had something similar for p tags. Worked for them so don’t see why not. Uses negative lookahead to check that it doesn’t match a (prefixed with an optional / character) where (using positive lookahead) a (with optional / prefix) is followed by a > or a space, stuff and then >. This then matches up until the next > character. Put this in a subst with 

s/<(?!\/?a(?=>|\s.*>))\/?.*?>//g;

This should leave only the opening and closing a tags

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