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combining regular expressions

I have some text to parse. I dont want to match link text or text inside
paragraphs of class=tab. All other text should be matched. Here is the text:

**********
This text will match<a href="">This text wont match</a>This text will
match<p class=tab>This text wont match</p><p class=other>This text will
match</p>This text will match<a href="">This text wont match</a>This text
will match.

**********

I have written 2 regexes. One matches the links:
<\s*a[^>]*>[^<]*?<\s*/\s*a[^>]*> The other matches the paragraphs:
<\s*p[^>]*class\s*=\s*['""]{0,1}tab['""]{0,1}\s*[^>]*>(.|\n)*?<\s*/\s*p[^>]*>

I think I need to combine the regexes into one big regex but I still dont
know how to capture the correct text. Can anyone help?
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