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Asked: June 12, 20262026-06-12T04:52:59+00:00 2026-06-12T04:52:59+00:00

Possible Duplicate: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags Lets say I’m trying

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RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

Lets say I’m trying to match the word “google” in a string but sometimes that string contains a link (<a href="http://www.google.com">google</a>) but I only want to match if it’s not a link.

How can I check if there is a <a href="http://www.google.com"> before the word?

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    2026-06-12T04:53:00+00:00Added an answer on June 12, 2026 at 4:53 am

    The most accurate approach is to:

    • Parse the string as HTML
    • Search whatever is not a tag for the string “Google”.

    You don’t want to try parsing HTML with regular expressions. It will make you sad in the long run. Please take a look at http://htmlparsing.com/ for some pointers that could get you started.

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