What role does the strpos function play in removing content between <> tags in PHP?

The strpos function in PHP is used to find the position of the first occurrence of a substring within a string. In the context of removing content between <> tags, strpos can be used to locate the positions of the opening and closing tags, allowing us to extract the content within those tags and remove it from the original string. 

&lt;?php
$string = &quot;&lt;p&gt;This is some &lt;b&gt;sample&lt;/b&gt; text.&lt;/p&gt;&quot;;
$start_tag = &#039;&lt;&#039;;
$end_tag = &#039;&gt;&#039;;

$start_pos = strpos($string, $start_tag);
$end_pos = strpos($string, $end_tag, $start_pos);

if ($start_pos !== false &amp;&amp; $end_pos !== false) {
    $string = substr_replace($string, &#039;&#039;, $start_pos, $end_pos - $start_pos + 1);
}

echo $string; // Output: &quot;&lt;p&gt;This is some text.&lt;/p&gt;&quot;
?&gt;

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