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Extract text up to the n-th character in a string, but return the whole string if the character isn&

Time：03-08

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You can repeat matching 0-3 times including the > using

^(?:[^>]*>){0,3}[^>]*

^ Start of string
(?:[^>]*>){0,3} Repeat 0 - 3 times matching any character except > and then match >
[^>]* Optionally match any char except >

If there should be at least a single > then the quantifier can be {1,3}