Topic awaiting preservation: Regex

Hello there! It's been a while.

I am searching for a regular expression, that matches the word "robert" in the following string, except the "robert" in the href:

<p>jhg hkg jkh robert <a href="mailto:robert.test@email.com">robert.test@email.com</a> robert </p>
<p> sdlksaf lsafdh robert </p>

To summarize this: search all "robert", except the ones inside <>.

Thank you.

s/mailto:robert/mailto:asdfbeans

s/robert/foo

s/mailto:asdfbeans/mailto:robert

Or maybe*:

/<a href=\"(.*?)\">.*?robert.*?/

note the 'maybe'. I haven't tested this.


Justice 4 Pat Richard

Based on the data you've given and the stated problem.

The following expression will find all the "robert"s between > and <

>[^<>]*robert

If all you want to do is find them, that expression will work. If you want to replace them all with something, I need to know more about what you're trying to do, what language you're using, etc.

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