Ignore first character in regex match

Question

I need to ignore >in my regex first.

My regex is:

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

Corresponds to the following:

How do I say to be ignored at first >?

Here is the regex on regexr.com.

Answer 1

A possible workaround is to match non- >characters:

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

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

Answer 2

You can use:

.*?>(\w+)<

Here you can check a working example:

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