Wordpress Search Regex plugin not matching greater than symbol

Question

I am using the Search Regex plugin for Wordpress. I have it matching all of my regex except for the literal ">", which it never correctly matches.

Answer 1

The answer was to use the HTML special character, > in my pattern, rather than an actual >. Every time I submitted the search, > was replaced by >, so I had to keep changing it back to the escaped version. I assume this could be true for any character represented in HTML by a special character.