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Require the same tag name at both ends.

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Section: Backreferences

Same opening and closing tag

regex
regex
<([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*)\b[^>]*>.*?</\1>
Explanation

Works for simple tag-like text, though regex is not a full HTML parser.

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