Regex select all anchors except some

Question

I need to remove all anchors (anchor text remains) from the string except those anchors that have href="/"

This is example text:

Fusce imperdiet nulla ut sapien aliquet, congue varius dui consectetur. <a href="/">This link remains</a> et blandit nisl. Curabitur euismod volutpat urna, eget dignissim libero cursus rhoncus. Nulla ac test sollicitudin <a href="test">link from this text should be removed</a>. Maecenas sodales vel lorem eu placerat.

Here is regex that I think should work (using negative lookahead):

/<a.*?(?!href=["']/["'])>(.*?)</a>/gi

Yet it selects both anchors.

Answer 1

try regex <a(?!.*href=["']/["']).*?>(.*?)</a>

The negative lookahead (?!.*href=["']/["']) won't capture the tag with href="/"

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