Regular expression to select everything outside <> in a string

Question

I'm not very handy with regex and I need to select everything outside <> to get the length of the string, excluding the "<>".

For example: first<second>third<fourth>fifth should give me first third fifth.

How can I do it? I spent some hours searching the web but I didn't really find what I needed. The regex is needed for use in javascript.

Answer 1

You can always replace the text between smaller than and greater than symbols using regex below.

/<\w+>/g

In this case the text which is outside remains. See https://regexr.com/422jf