I need to match all of these opening tags:

<p>
<a href="foo">

But not these:

<br />
<hr class="foo" />

I came up with this and wanted to make sure I've got it right. I am only capturing the a-z.

<([a-z]+) *[^/]*?>

I believe it says:

• Find a less-than, then
• Find (and capture) a-z one or more times, then
• Find zero or more spaces, then
• Find any character zero or more times, greedy, except /, then
• Find a greater-than

Do I have that right? And more importantly, what do you think?