<athe literal text <a (case sensitive) \ban ASCII word boundary
Negated Character Class[^><]* *matches any number of characters outside the set below:
>the literal > (6210 / 768 / 3E16)
<the literal < (6010 / 748 / 3C16)
>the literal > (6210 / 768 / 3E16)
(*SKIP)acts like (*PRUNE), but the next unanchored match attempt starts where (*SKIP) was reached instead of at the next subject character
(*F)forces the current match attempt to fail at this position