PHP Regex function to extract text between tags for a synopsis or intro text

The following method prepare the synopsis from the body and the second part is for unit tests:

	/**
	* Returns short synopsis
	* @param $bodyString Body string
	* @return string|null
	*/
	public function getSynopsis($bodyString): ?string
	{
	if (null === $bodyString) {
	return null;
	}
	$matchFound = (
	\preg_match(
	'/(<li>\s*(.*?)\s*<\s*\/li>)/mu',
	$bodyString,
	$matches
	)
	);
	if (0 < $matchFound) {
	return \strip_tags(
	\trim(
	\current($matches)
	)
	);
	}
	return (
	\strip_tags(
	\trim(
	\current(
	\preg_split('/^\s?\W\s+/mu', $bodyString, 2, \PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY)
	)
	)
	)
	?? $bodyString
	);
	}

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	public function dpTestSynopsis(): array
	{
	return [
	[
	'value' => "*<b><h1>First sentence for synopsis</b>\n * 2nd sentence from the body\n"
	'expect' => 'First sentence for synopsis',
	],
	[
	'value' => "<ul><li>list_1 sentence</li><li>List 2 sentence</li></ul>",
	'expect' => 'list_1 sentence',
	],
	[
	'value' => "First sentence for synopsis \n <ul><li>list_1 sentence</li><li>List 2 sentence</li></ul>",
	'expect' => 'list_1 sentence',
	],
	];
	}
	/**
	* @dataProvider dpTestSynopsis
	*/
	public function testGetSynopsis($value, $expect)
	{
	self::assertEquals($expect, $this->sut->getSynopsis($value));
	}

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Hope it helps!