No you can’t. You can have an unescaped <hr> inside a script tag, for example. The best you can do is a simple string search for “<hr>” and hope it’s returning what you think it might be returning. Regexps are not powerful enough to determine whether any particular instance of “<hr>” is actually an HTML tag.

Like, it’s not a matter of cleverness, either. You can’t code around it. It’s simply not possible.