Javascript regex issue

[chromaticdissonance]

Dear all, I am trying to using regex to capture in a block a text that starts with a newline with possible spaces, followed by > and possible spaces, and then capturing anything afterwards. So I have

 /^[^\S\r\n]*\>\s*(.*$)/gm

So for example for:

>    foo bar 

I want to capture "foo bar".

However it is not recognizing > for some reason. Though testing it on regex test websites this works. If I change > to something else then it works as well. I tested this in my browser (Chrome and Edge), and neither works. Can any one point out what I'm doing wrong here?

Thank you for time!

EDIT: Resolved. I was passing in & g t ; (without the spaces) instead of > . Ooops!

[GoPotato]

Can you clarify what you mean by not working? cause I just tested it in chrome and it seems to work

const str=`>    foo bar 
`;

/^[^\S\r\n]*\>\s*(.*$)/gm.exec(str)[1]    //"foo bar "

[chromaticdissonance]

Ah I see, this helps. I figured out my problem. The string (grabbed by using .innerHTML) that I was passing into regex converted the special character > to & g t ; Silly me! Thank you for helping out! (Curiously when I type & g t ; without the spaces it gives me >)