Question

I need this:

Input

<div>some text [img]path_to_image.jpg[\img]</div>
<div>some more text</div>
<div> and some more and more text [img]path_to_image2.jpg[\img]</div>

Output

<div>some text <img src="path_to_image.jpg"></div>
<div>some more text</div>
<div>and some more and more text <img src="path_to_image2.jpg"></div>

This is my try and also fail

var input  = "some text [img]path_to_image[/img] some other text";
var output = input.replace (/(?:(?:\[img\]|\[\/img\])*)/mg, "");
alert(output)
//output: some text path_to_image some other text

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

You don’t need a regex, just do:

var output = input.replace ("[img]","<img src=\"").replace("[/img]","\">");