Find Chinese text in HTML using preg_match

Question

I'm attempting to get the text string from a string of HTML. I would like to capture only the text between tags and skip over any empty tags.

My attempt is current attempt can be found here:
https://regex101.com/r/3Ujmw6/2

• I can't use \w since I need to capture Chinese characters
• I would like only text and not a lot of empty results

I have tried:

/>(\X+?)</g

//I will fail on nested tags, it capture the first nested tag
<p><strong>blablab</strong></p>

And this:

/>(\X*?)</g

//Finds me all the string, but also includes loads of empty strings
//for adjacent tags ><

Is there any way to exclude < from \X? Or is there a better way to write this so it returns only the text parts?

Answer 1

Try a regex like

>(\s*[^\s<][^<]*)

This simply matches all text between > and < that isn't all whitespace. See https://regex101.com/r/3Ujmw6/4.