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Asked: 2026-06-09T20:52:45+00:00

In ECMAScript, and here’s my regex that i’m working with: replace(/\[(.+)\s+->\s+([^\]]+)]/g, ‘<a class=adl_btnlnk href=$2>$1</a>’);

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In ECMAScript, and here’s my regex that i’m working with:

replace(/\[(.+)\s+->\s+([^\]]+)]/g, '<a class=adl_btnlnk href="$2">$1</a>');

That’s fine for the following string:

"[INNER\"',';!@#$%^&*gobbeldygook ->    -> -> http://li.nk?u=r&l]"

…It does exactly what I need. But what about when I have:

"[INNER\"',';!@#$%^&*gobbeldygook ->    -> -> http://li.nk?u=r&l] laksjfalksdjf98723&*(*&(*@&#$ [foo -> http://li.nk]"

It results in one, broken, link:

"<a class=adl_btnlnk href="http://li.nk">INNER"',';!@#$%^&*gobbeldygook ->    -> -> http://li.nk?u=r&l] laksjfalksdjf98723&*(*&(*@&#$ [foo</a>"

How can I make it into:

"<a class=adl_btnlnk href="http://li.nk?u=r&l">INNER"',';!@#$%^&*gobbeldygook ->    -></a> laksjfalksdjf98723&*(*&(*@&#$ <a class=adl_btnlink href="http://li.nk">foo</a>"
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  1. Editorial Team

    You can make your + quantifiers take as less as possible by appending a ?. But you have to alter your regexp a bit so that it takes as much as possible excluding ] characters for the first group. Also, the last group shouldn’t include the arrows:

    /\[([^\]]+?)\s+->\s+([^->\]]+?)]/g
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