How to match specific characters in a string only when character is surrounded by space on both sides?

Question

So another regex question:

say i have this string <p> < Hello World > </p>. And I wanted to remove the inner <>, but not the p-tags.

How would I go about making a regex that matches < or > only when they have a space on both sides?

Thanks alot, Erwin

Answer 1

A quick visit to Rubular gives us this answer:

string.match(\s[<>]\s)