Help with find&replace regex

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I cannot for the life of me figure out how to leave only images in a field containing text, divs, and links.

i.e. I want to leave only images in this sample:

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I’m not sure that can be done with find&replace if the two may appear in an arbitrary order. You may have more luck exporting to a csv file, solving the problem with external tools/chatGPT, then importing your changes back in.

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If done in multiple steps, maybe it will work. You could remove divs, then text, then links, etc. using separate regex expressions first (such as </?a[^<>]+>). In the end only images will be left.

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Okay. So through many steps I can get to:
text text text <img…>text text text

how can I find & replace the text outside of the <img…>

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something like ^[^<>]+<img and >[^<>]+$ maybe?

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I gave a bad example. there are multiple <img> tags. so it’s more like:

asdlfkaj sdfl<img>adslfkaj <img>aldkjf aldfj

@dae was correct. can’t be done b/c anki uses rust regex, but doesn’t support lookbehind.

this particular problem has to be solved externally. excel’s formulas and sublime’s find/replace each had some kind of limiting feature. I ran out of time, but found a way to get the major problem I was trying to solve fixed. I’m sure a more typical regex with python would solve the img tag problem.

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