How to get the text between angular brackets but without the angular brackets?

Question

I have tried this:

(?=<).+(?<=>)

But it always matches the angular brackets too:

So how can I get the text without the brackets? (it should match any text between the brackets which fits in a line).

Answer 1

It's pretty easy, the .+ eats up everything up to the end of the line (remember, the dot matches everything including > and < here).
Either use a lazy quantifier (demo)

(?<=<).+?(?=>)

or a negated character class (demo)

<([^>]+)