Split and capture text ending with brackets and two letters — Practical take

chef_carol

I have a textarea to write text in multiple language; for each language user has to end text with two brackets and two letters in it for each language. For example: L'aereo era in pista.[it] The aircraft was on runway.[en] I need to capture text and two lang letters inside brackets. I'm using the following regex in JavaScript: /(.*?)(?=\[([a-zA-Z]{2})\])/gm Regex101 The code doesn't allow me to capture multi-line code, like in the example below:...

Originally asked by Federico on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Working on the assumption that you also want each match to begin and end on line boundaries, I would use: /^(.*?)\[([a-zA-Z]{2})\]$/gms The s flag allows . to match newline characters and the ^ and $ anchors enforce the line boundaries. If you do not want to enforce the line boundaries so that a new match could begin on the same line as a previous match, then remove the anchors. Instead of using the s flag, you could replace . with [\s\S] , which will match any character including newlines. See demo .

Full answer by Booboo: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/80011031 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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