I Need Help On regex string

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I need a string to select everything all html tags text numbers everything, except the random occurrence of words found within the anchor closing tag, of this line rel="bookmark">RANDOM WORDS</a></h1>

I tried the string [<0-9a-zA-z/=|"-:.*?>] which select's literally everything, it find's that's okay, but I require one that exclude's RANDOM WORDS, in the selection that's found within the line mentioned above.

It's 2013. Stop using regexes to parse HTML. Use an XML parser. — , Feb 20 '13 at 16:27
This is a duplicate question. See the answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/1123744 — Tarandeep Gill, Feb 20 '13 at 16:39
possible duplicate of [RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags) — nhahtdh, Feb 28 '13 at 16:11

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 20 '13 at 16:27

Regex's are not the right tool for this job. Please consider using an XML/HTML DOM parser and extract the information you need that way!

The reason you're having trouble with crafting a RegEx to accomplish this task is because the HTML markup language is not regular - hence, not suitable for processing with regular expressions!

I Need Help On regex string

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