get rid of an HTML symbol using regex

Question

I have a regex which searches successfully for a text inside an HTML code given a keyword however I cannot get rid of the symbol < or >

This is my regex:

[><][^><=]*climate[> - <][^<|//]*

And this the result:

>Formation of coastal sea ice in North Pacific drives ocean circulation and climate<

any suggestion please?

What program are you using to parse this? what style of regex? also see this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/181095/regular-expression-to-extract-text-from-html — sakurashinken, Nov 24 '16 at 06:21

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 24 '16 at 06:23

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Just use [^<>]*climateas regex, that should do the trick. Or did I misunderstand your question?

Nice helper for testing and building regex: http://regexr.com/

answered Nov 24 '16 at 06:23

Kai Adelmann

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 24 '16 at 06:23

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Add look ahead and lookbehind instead of matching them:

(?<=[><])[^><=]*climate(?=[> - <])[^<|/]*
^^^^^^^^^              ^^^^^^^^^^^

answered Nov 24 '16 at 06:23

karthik manchala

Works perfect thank you soo much! and thanks for explanation! – jim Nov 24 '16 at 07:18
@jim Happy to help :) – karthik manchala Nov 24 '16 at 07:39

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