Not to belittle your idea, but "duh". The best course of action is not to strip the tags, but to merely render them as actual text. You do need to s/>/>/g too, or else I'll find a way to terminate a comment early or something wacky like that.

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Jeff[japhy]Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker.
s++=END;++y(;-P)}y js++=;shajsj<++y(p-q)}?print:??;