RegEx Match string between angle brackets and ignore newline

Question

I think I've nearly got this figured out but I cant for life of me figure out why its removing the first part of "little rock"

Heres the string I'm working with:

"<Telerik.Sitefinity.GeoLocations.Model.Address>\n <City>Little Rock</City>

Here's my RegEX:

/(?<=>[^\\n]).+?(?=\<)/gm

And here's my results so far:

ittle Rock

I'm trying to capture the text between the angled brackets but also ignore any \n values. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Is it an actual newline, or literally `\n` ? The `.+?` Does not match a newline. One way to write it: `(?<=>)(?:(?!\\n)[^\r\n<>])*(?=<)` https://regex101.com/r/qhqdvz/1 — The fourth bird, Aug 23 '22 at 16:41
https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/2770274 - it's about parsing XHTML, but the answer is the same - use XML parser, not regexes — Adassko, Aug 23 '22 at 16:45
@Thefourthbird its literally a \n in string form. And that worked perfectly thank you! — AlignSD, Aug 23 '22 at 16:49
`(?<=>(?!\\n))[^<>]*(?=<)` [works, too](https://regex101.com/r/dpskJd/1). — Wiktor Stribiżew, Aug 23 '22 at 16:51
@WiktorStribiżew Looking at the OP's pattern, I think that would be a better pattern. — The fourth bird, Aug 23 '22 at 17:06

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 23 '22 at 17:20

You can use

(?<=>(?!\\n))[^<>]*(?=<)

See the regex demo. Details:

(?<=>(?!\\n)) - a positive lookbehind that requires (immediately to the left of the current location) a > char not immediately followed with \n two-char sequence to appear immediately to the left of the current location
[^<>]* - zero or more chars other than < and >
(?=<) - a positive lookahead that requires < char at the right of the current location.

Variations

(?<=>(?!\\n)).*?(?=<)
(?<=>(?!\\n))[^<>]*

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