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

Assuming that this will work in PERL as it does in languages that claim to use PERL-compatible syntax:

/<\/?[^p][^>]*>/

EDIT:

But that won't match a

 or  tag, unfortunately.


This, perhaps?

/<\/?(?!p>|p )[^>]+>/


That should cover 
 tags that have attributes, too.