Question

How would I define a regex that just gets me a pattern like

text HTMLTag text HTMLTag text HTMLTag ……..

Basically a unit patter is ‘text HTMLTag’ which can be fetched using $1 and $2 .

An exmaple data would be

abarelixx is a sample data for spellchecking<img src="Randomz" alt="Randomz Image">Randomz is the name of the image</img>Bigboss<img src="Randomz" alt="Randomz Image">Randomz is the name of the image</img>this is another text string

This need to be broken down to text HTMLTag …and if there is no text/HTMLTag , it should return “” .

Answer 1

I found a decent solution for this problem . Append a ‘>’ to the beginning and ‘<‘ to the end . And then use a patter like re = /([>])([^<]+)([<])/g $2 would be all the text contents .
And you can ofcourse use a normal HTML pattern to get the HTML tags .