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Javascript – Multiple regex combination

I want to find the text that starts with any character(but not space) and ends with space
I can use S+s

wonders like <a href="https://example" title="Perito Moreno Glacier">Perito Moreno Glacier</a> and

The issue is that the a link element is also matched, so I want to skip the a element for this searching

I can use <a.*?a> for searching a element.

So I want to combine the logic S+s but skip <a.*?a>

I have tried (S+s)|(<a.*?a>) but it didn’t work.
The expected result is
wonders
like
<a href="https://example" title="Perito Moreno Glacier">Perito Moreno Glacier</a>
and

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  1. 0

    As implied in the comments about regexp and html… I will use dom instead. Just in case your string may contain nested html.

    However, if your string is a flat and valid html, you could also have a look at this answer which is about extracting words or "phrases".

    const string = 'wonders like <a href="https://example" title="Perito Moreno Glacier">Perito Moreno Glacier</a> and';

// let's hope string is valid html
var html = "<span>" + string + "</span>"

// convert it to HTMLElement (could use DOMParser instead)
var dummy = document.createElement("div");
dummy.innerHTML = html
var node = dummy.firstChild;

function processNode(node) {
  var all = [];
  for (node = node.firstChild; node; node = node.nextSibling) {
    if (node.nodeType == 3) {

      // text node
      var str = node.nodeValue
      all = all.concat(str.trim().split(/s+/))
    } else {

      // an element
      all.push(node.outerHTML)
      
      // or instead, let's get fancy:
      // all = all.concat(processNode(node))
    }
  }
  return all;

}

console.log(processNode(node))
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  2. 0

    Maybe this?

    <a[^>]+>[^<]+</a>|w+

    Explanation

    this part matches the whole link:
<a[^>]+>[^<]+</a>

this part means "or a word":
|w+
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