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Asked: 2026-06-08T18:48:04+00:00

I have been trying to use a regexp that matches any text that is

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I have been trying to use a regexp that matches any text that is between a caret, less than and a greater than, caret.

So it would look like: ^< THE TEXT I WANT SELECTED >^

I have tried something like this, but it isn’t working: ^<(.*?)>^

I’m assuming this is possible, right? I think the reason I have been having such a tough time is because the caret serves as a quantifier. Thanks for any help I get!

Update

Just so everyone knows, they following from am not i am worked

 /\^<(.*?)>\^/

But, it turned out that I was getting html entities since I was getting my string by using the .innerHTML property. In other words,

> ... &gt;
< ... &lt;

To solve this, my regexp actually looks like this:

\^&lt;(.*?)((.|\n)*)&gt;\^

This includes the fact that the string in between should be any character or new line. Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to escape the ^ symbol since it has special meaning in a JavaScript regex.

     /\^<(.*?)>\^/

    In a JavaScript regex, the ^ means beginning of the string, unless the m modifier was used, in which case it means beginning of the line.

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