Regular expression to extract text between square brackets
You can use the following regex globally:
\[(.*?)\]
Explanation:
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\[:[is a meta char and needs to be escaped if you want to match it literally. -
(.*?): match everything in a non-greedy way and capture it. -
\]:]is a meta char and needs to be escaped if you want to match it literally.
(?<=\[).+?(?=\])
Will capture content without brackets
(?<=\[)- positive lookbehind for[.*?- non greedy match for the content(?=\])- positive lookahead for]
EDIT: for nested brackets the below regex should work:
(\[(?:\[??[^\[]*?\]))