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Finding & characters in HTML document

Q

How to find & characters that are not part of HTML entities in HTML code?

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A

The regular expression to find & characters that are not part of HTML entities in an HTML document can be written as: with multiple lines modifier "m" specified: Note that: 

.*&             - Match the & character
(?![\w#\d]+;)   - Not followed by [\w#\d]+;

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