how to replace all occurrence of string between two symbols?

Question

I\'m working with RegEx on Javascript and here is where I stuck.

I have a simple string like

Answer 1

Try this regex instead:

<[^>]+>

DEMO:

http://regex101.com/r/kI5cJ7/2

DISCUSSION

Put the html code in a string and apply to this string the regex.

var htmlCode = ...;
htmlCode = htmlCode.replace(/<[^>]+>/g, '');

The original regex take too much characters (* is a greedy operator).

Check this page about Repetition with Star and Plus, especially the part on "Watch Out for The Greediness!".

Most people new to regular expressions will attempt to use <.+>. They will be surprised when they test it on a string like This is a first test. You might expect the regex to match and when continuing after that match, .

But it does not. The regex will match first. Obviously not what we wanted.