html textarea regex match

Question

I'm developing a chrome and firefox extension and i'm stuck with matching a certain tag and content inside of that. Can you please help me out?

Code:

[QUOTE=UserAdmin;22061013]
  [SIZE="4"]
    [LEFT]
      [COLOR="DarkGreen"] Sample text goes here [/COLOR]
    [/LEFT]
  [/SIZE]
[/QUOTE]

Here i'd like to match beginning of [QUOTE= because everything what comes after that will be totally different each time and finally by the closing tag of [/QUOTE]

I'm not a regex expert and here is what i've came up with:

const regex = /^(\[QUOTE=)/;
const str = "[QUOTE=UserAdmin;22061013][SIZE="4"] [LEFT] [COLOR="DarkGreen"] Sample text goes here [/COLOR] [/LEFT] [/SIZE][/QUOTE]";

It successfully matched as below but i'm not sure this is the correct way of doing it:

If i can have a regex code to match whatever inside the [QUOTE=]....[/QUOTE] tag and save it to later use would be highly appreciated.

Online regex fiddle link

So to clarify: You just want to query the first `[QUOTE=?]` or do you also want to query the content inside `[QUOTE=?] and [/QUOTE]` — lumio, Aug 08 '17 at 10:59

tchelidze · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-08T11:02:09.440

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Try this

\[QUOTE=[\s\S]+\[\/QUOTE\]

edited Aug 08 '17 at 11:02

answered Aug 08 '17 at 10:58

tchelidze

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Can you please match `[QUOTE=` and end of `[/QUOTE]` as well please? – CodeMonkey Aug 08 '17 at 11:01
Sure, it's much easier this way. *I just noticed that first version would not work for Javascript, since it's regex engine does not support positive lookahead and lookbehinds* – tchelidze Aug 08 '17 at 11:01
Amazing.. I'll double check and mark your answer as accepted. Thank you for your help so far. :) – CodeMonkey Aug 08 '17 at 11:03
@CodeMonkey Happy that it was helpful – tchelidze Aug 08 '17 at 11:03
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Works like a charm mate. Cheers..!! – CodeMonkey Aug 08 '17 at 11:25

html textarea regex match

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