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

You should probably also remove any attributes on the

tag, since someone bad could do something like:

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The easiest way to do this, is to use the regex people suggest here to search for <p> tags with attributes, and replace them with

tags without attributes. Just to be on the safe side.