Question

So am trying to do a basic bbcode parsing (just for embed tag) but it’s been a while I didn’t play around with regexp so I’m asking help on this one.
I’d like to match all ... so I use:

var regexp = new RegExp(/\.*\[\/embed\]/ig);
console.log(regexp.test(content));

I got many false while I should only have true.

Jsfiddle available here : http://jsfiddle.net/5rxu5/3/

Answer 1

This should work:

var reg = new RegExp(/\[embed\](.*?)\[\/embed\]/i);
$('.wmd-output').each(function() {
    var content = $(this).html();
    alert(reg.test(content));
});

Here is the jsfiddle link which alerts true for all cases: http://jsfiddle.net/UVy45/