Question

I need a regular expression that matches some tags surrounded with square brackets. Nothing fancy, I just need it to match the tags. Like these:

[quote]  
[/quote]  
[b]  
[url]  

etc

I don’t need it to worry about closing tags or anything. I just want to get a collection of all tags within a text. My regular expression knowledge is more than limited.

Answer 1

If you aren’t worried about matching the end or nesting or any of those silly complications, this will match and capture those tags:

(\[[^\]]*\])