Regular Expressions 101

Group tagStart(?<tagStart><[^>]+>)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^>]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Group text(?<text>[^<]+)

Negated Character Class[^<]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Group tagEnd(?<tagEnd><\/[^>]+>)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^>]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Global pattern flags

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

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Regular Expression

(?<tagStart><[^>]+>)(?<text>[^<]+)(?<tagEnd><\/[^>]+>)

New

- does reliably match unnested and strictly valid markup:
  # My name is Alan and I'm <span>an</span> <div class="someClass">artist</div>.

- does not match any nested markup:
  # My name is Alan and I'm <span><em>an</em></span> <div><em>artist</em></div>.