This works fine for me, also. Is there any chance that you have reduced this to a minimal test case and are actually viewing the results in a browser? If so, any data in the form /<[^>]*>/ (more or less) will be interpreted as a tag by the browser and will be ignored if it doesn't understand it.

Cheers,
Ovid

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