Strip all HTML tags except links

Question

I am trying to write a regular expression to strip all HTML with the exception of links (the and tags respectively. It does n

Answer 1

<(?!\/?a(?=>|\s.*>))\/?.*?>

Try this. Had something similar for p tags. Worked for them so don't see why not. Uses negative lookahead to check that it doesn't match a (prefixed with an optional / character) where (using positive lookahead) a (with optional / prefix) is followed by a > or a space, stuff and then >. This then matches up until the next > character. Put this in a subst with

s/<(?!\/?a(?=>|\s.*>))\/?.*?>//g;

This should leave only the opening and closing a tags