Ignore First Character in Regex Match

Question

I need to ignore the > in my regular expression in the beginning.

My regular expression:

/(>(.+)(?=<\/a>))/igm

Matches the following:

How do I tell it to ignore the > in the beginning?

Here is the regular expression on regexr.com.

Answer 1

You can use:

.*?>(\w+)<

Here you can check a working example:

Debuggex Demo

Answer 2

Possible workaround would be to match non > characters:

[^>]+(?=<\/a>)

regex101 demo

Or you take the substring of each of your results in the code itself.