Question

I have the following possibilities:

1. ' !This is a string! '
2. '!This is a string !'
3. '! This is a string !'
4. ' ! This is a string! '
5. ' ! This is a string '

In all of these case I want to match

'This is a string'

Heres what I tried so far:

/\s*!(.*)!{0,1}
/\s*!(.*?)!{0,1}

But it either gobbles up the ! or doesn’t match at all. Note that the ! at the end is optional.

Here’s a fiddle to see what I mean

Answer 1

Or maybe this one

/^\s*!\s*(.*?)\s*!?\s*$/