Regex to match all HTML tags except and

Question

I need to match and remove all tags using a regular expression in Perl. I have the following:

<\\\\??(?!p).+?>

But this still matche

Answer 1

Not sure why you are wanting to do this - regex for HTML sanitisation isn't always the best method (you need to remember to sanitise attributes and such, remove javascript: hrefs and the likes)... but, a regex to match HTML tags that aren't

:

(<[^pP].*?>|)

Verbose:

(
    <               # < opening tag
        [^pP].*?    # p non-p character, then non-greedy anything
    >               # > closing tag
|                   #   ....or....
                   # >
)