Regular expression lookbhind in JavaScript

Asked Mar 04 '20 at 15:16

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I'm attempting to remove the entire anchor tag and its contents. This would leave me the text that follows.

Initial String:

<a>Text inside</a> Some text that follows

Expected:

Some text that follows

I've been getting conflicting answers on how lookbacks work and don't work in the current state of JavaScript.

I've looked here and other places, but when implimenting a lookback, I run into issues. Every regex generator I use says its not supported in JavaScript.

asked Mar 04 '20 at 15:16

Dave.Q

And why do you need a lookbehind? – Wiktor Stribiżew Mar 04 '20 at 15:19
Because they're not supported (universally) in JavaScript--doesn't seem necessary, though--just replace with an empty string. – Dave Newton Mar 04 '20 at 15:21

Regular expression lookbhind in JavaScript

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