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I need to ignore the > in my regular expression in the beginning.

My regular expression:

/(>(.+)(?=<\/a>))/igm

Matches the following:

How do I tell it to ignore the > in the beginning?

Here is the regular expression on regexr.

I need to ignore the > in my regular expression in the beginning.

My regular expression:

/(>(.+)(?=<\/a>))/igm

Matches the following:

How do I tell it to ignore the > in the beginning?

Here is the regular expression on regexr.com.

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• positive lookbehind, though it doesnt work in regexr.com for some reason. – Ed Morales Commented Jun 30, 2014 at 20:46
• 1 @EdwardM.B.: the reason is that the lookbehind feature isn't available in Javascript. – Casimir et Hippolyte Commented Jun 30, 2014 at 20:48
• stackoverflow.com/questions/590747/… – epascarello Commented Jun 30, 2014 at 20:49

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Possible workaround would be to match non > characters:

[^>]+(?=<\/a>)

regex101 demo

Or you take the substring of each of your results in the code itself.

You can use:

.*?>(\w+)<

Here you can check a working example:

Debuggex Demo

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