Problem with newline in JavaScript regexp

Question

i tried to do not show "SPAM" in string below using that regex:

alert("{SPAM\nSPAM} _1_ {SPAM} _2_".replace(/{[\s\S]+}/gm, ""));

What i was supposed to see was "~1~ ~2~"

(or something like that) but i got just ~2~. Why?

kennytm · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-07 17:22:47Z

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} and { are also elements of the character class [\s\S]. You should avoid matching this by:

/{[^}]+}/g

so that the regex stops once the } is found.

answered Oct 7, 2010 at 17:22

kennytm

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Was about to post something about (un)greedy, but this is definitely better.