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I needed to find all ReactJS components that contained plain text as content and these regular expressions helped me.
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Several regex to match opening and closing pair of a specific tag.md

Matches the opening and closing pair of a specific HTML tag.

<([A-Z][A-Z0-9]*)\b[^>]*>(.*?)</\1>

Matches the opening and closing pair of a specific HTML tag that contain one or more letters and numbers and _.

<([A-Z][A-Z0-9]*)\b[^>]*>[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+</\1>

Test

(?<=(<pre>))(\w|\d|\n|[().,\-:;@#$%^&*\[\]"'+–/\/®°⁰!?{}|~]| )+?(?=())`

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