regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

Pro

<posthe literal text <pos (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^<>]*?

*?matches any number of characters outside the set below:

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Group 1(.*?)

.*?any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

pos>the literal text pos> (case sensitive)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

25 tokens

Regular Expression

<pos[^<>]*?>\s*(.*?)<\/pos>

New

<div><span>text text</span></div><a href="#">link</a>
<div><input type="button" value="click"><ul><li>item1</li><li>item2</li></ul></div>
<p><pos w="12">good</pos></p>
text<a href="#">text link</a>
<button>name</button><textarea></textarea>

Extraction

<div><span>text text</span></div><a href="#">link</a>
<div><input type="button" value="click"><ul><li>item1</li><li>item2</li></ul></div>
<p><pos w="12">good</pos></p>
text<a href="#">text link</a>
<button>name</button><textarea></textarea>