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  1. import re
  2. text = "<foo>abcaaa<bar>a<foo>cbacba<foo>c"
  3. print( re.findall(r'(?=(?<![^<>])([a-c]*<\w+>[a-c]*)(?![^<>]))', text) )
Success #stdin #stdout 0.02s 9424KB
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stdin 
Standard input is empty
stdout 
['<foo>abcaaa', 'abcaaa<bar>a', 'a<foo>cbacba', 'cbacba<foo>c']
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Python 3 (python  3.12)
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