I'm trying to get with a regex using PCRE2 dialect from an HTML text all the occurrences of the word 'apple'. But excluding when the word apple it's part of a link.
I'm quite a beginner with Regex, probably I'm doing quite a simple mistake.
\bapple\b
So, the following text has to match the first occurrence but not the second and third one.
Lorem ipsum apple sit amet, consectetur <a href="#">apple</a> elit <a href="/test/apple">lorem</a>.
What am I doing wrong?
In PCRE, you may use this regex:
~(?is)<a .*?</a>(*SKIP)(*F)|\bapple\b~
RegEx Details:
(?is): Enable ignore case and DOTALL modes<a .*?</a>: Match text from <a to </a> to skip all <a> tage(*SKIP)(*F): together provide a nice alternative of restriction that you cannot have a variable length lookbehind in PCRE regex|: OR\bapple\b: Match word apple