I tried this code:
/\[\[(.*?)\]\]/g
to return multiple matches from text like this: some [[text]] and even [[more]] text. But instead oftext, more, it only returns text. What I am doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
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FPeter
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@FPeter how do you get the `match`? – kennytm Apr 14 '17 at 17:08
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3@dawg There's nothing wrong with the regex. – Derek 朕會功夫 Apr 14 '17 at 17:08
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Are you using `match()` or `exec()`? The latter only returns the first occurring match and requires a while loop to retrieve all matching groups. – Terry Apr 14 '17 at 17:10
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Your regex is correct which includes the global match flag /g.
If you use the match method it should work fine.
var stringToTest = "some [[text\]\] and even [[more]] text";
var regexToTest = /\[\[(.*?)\]\]/g;
var matches = stringToTest.match(regexToTest);
console.log(matches)
Abhinav Galodha
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It shows the match method also and the way it should work in JS. – Abhinav Galodha Apr 14 '17 at 17:15
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How come the matches return the square brackets? How would you modify this to _only_ return the contents between the normal braces (`.*?`)? – Pineda Apr 14 '17 at 17:50
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The regex is ok:
var test = "[[text]] and even [[more]] text.".match(/\[\[(.*?)\]\]/g);
console.log(a);
> ["[[text]]", "[[more]]"]
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