I would like to verify that a string ends with any open Tag followed or not by a text
for example:
<div>some text here
or
<span>some text here
should match
but
<div>some text here</div>
or
<h1>some text here</h1>
should not
I tried to come up with a solution (sorry I'm not a regex pro)
let anyOpenTag = '<([^/>][^>])*>';
let anyCloseTag = '</[^/>][^>]*>';
let neitherOpenNorCloseTag = `[^(${anyOpenTag}|${anyCloseTag})]`;
let regex = new RegExp(
escapeRegExp(`${anyOpenTag}${neitherOpenNorCloseTag}*$`),
'gi');
I set a variable "anyOpenTag" to a regex that verifies if it's an open tag like (<p>, <div>, <span> etc...
I set a variable "anyCloseTag" to a regex that verifies if it's a closing tag like (</p>, </div>, etc...)
I set a variable "neitherOpenNorCloseTag" that tries to combine the two and check if it's not one of them using the [^....]
finally I check if the regex match anyOpenTag + neitherOpenNorCloseTag
unfortunately it doesn't work for me, precisely the part that verifies "neitherOpenNorCloseTag"
your help is appreciated, even if you have a better regex I would be grateful
Based on your examples, this snippet works:
const regex = /<.*>.*<\/.*>/g
const regexString = (regex) => {
return (s) => {
return !s.match(regex)
}
}
const validateString = regexString(regex)
const strings = [
'<div>some text here',
'<span>some text here',
'<div>some text here</div>',
'<h1>some text here</h1>',
]
const validated = strings.map(validateString)
console.log('Result:', validated)