From a recent posting:
 
       Unix nitpick:  the question has been raised as to what kind
       of regular expression might match SGML tags the best. Certainly,
       as Erik has pointed out, the initial suggestion
         /<.*>/
       is indeed far too destructive.
 
Not only this, but for many Unix systems, you'll run into line length
limits.  I checked GNU sed, and from a brief look at the code, it seems
it will allocate extra space if it needs it.  But this isn't so for all
sed implementations.
 
       Isn't a more elegant solution the regexp:
 
            <[^<>]*>
 
(Originally, your regexp had ^Z's in it, and no initial caret in the
brackets - isn't the above what you meant?)
 
One thing I'm wondering about is how you specify a literal (i.e. non-
meta) "<" or ">."
 
-Richard