Question

I want to create a regex that match ‘.’, ‘#’ and ‘:’ and also match everything inside these brackets ‘[‘ & ‘]’ such as [foo] & [bar]

I already have this match string.match(/[.#:]/g) for ‘.’,’#’ and ‘:’.

I know that the brackets regex should look like this \[.\]

but how do I combine them both to one condition?

thanks,
Alon

Answer 1

to combine them use

/[.#:]|(?:\[.+?\])/g

?: is optional and is used to not capture the group (anything in parenthesis)

UPDATE:

.+? (one or more) or .*?(for zero or more)- use this for lazy matching, otherwise [ sdfsdf][sdfsddf ] will be matched