Use regex to find specific string not in html tag

Question

I\'m having some difficulty with a specific Regex I\'m trying to use. I\'m searching for every occurrence of a string (for my purposes, I\'ll say it\'s \"mystring\") i

Answer 1

A quick and dirty alternative is to use a regex replace function with callback to encode the content of tags (everything between < and >), for example using base64, then run your search, then run another callback to decode your tag contents.

This can also save a lot of head scratching when you need to exclude specific tags from a regex search - first obfuscate them and wrap them in a marker that won't match your search, then run your search, then deobfuscate whatever is in markers.