match strings with regex outside image and href tag with javascript

Question

I'm trying to match words with regex outside <a></a> and <img /> tags I have the folowing code that only matches the string outside all tags

/test(?!.*<\/)/g

The test string between the a tags should not match the second two sould

<a>test</a>  test lorem test

any ideas?

This may not be 100% possible with regex. Solving for this bit is (not between > and ), however you can get into an HTML nesting issue which regex cannot resolve. — akaphenom, Jul 05 '16 at 17:12
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6751105/why-its-not-possible-to-use-regex-to-parse-html-xml-a-formal-explanation-in-la — akaphenom, Jul 05 '16 at 17:14

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 05 '16 at 17:22

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This should do the work:

var string = "hello<a asdf>hello</a>hello";

var regex = /(.*?)<a.*?>.*?<\/a>(.*?)/g;

console.log(regex.exec(string));

answered Jul 05 '16 at 17:22

Zimm1

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I need to match a specific string like `test` in the example – waterschaats Jul 05 '16 at 17:28
@waterschaats explain yourself better – Zimm1 Jul 05 '16 at 17:59

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