Javascript regexp for embed bbcode

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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 [embed]...[/embed] so I use:

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

I got many false while I should only have true.

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

Siavash Mahmoudian · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-12 06:45:41Z

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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/

answered Dec 12, 2012 at 6:45

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Sh1d0w · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-12 06:31:32Z

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

answered Dec 12, 2012 at 6:31

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user926721 Over a year ago

Alerting the same false in the jsfiddle.

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