On Dec 27, Papo Napolitano said:

>/\<(br|b|\/b|a\s.*?|\/a|p|\/p)\>/
>
>Now, how do I negate it?

Using a negative look-ahead:

  m{<(?!br?|a\s|p|/[bap])(.*?)>}

$1 will hold something other than "br", "b", "a ...", "p", "/b", "/a", or
"/p".

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