Using [ ] square braces in Regex

General
1

Anyone with Regex skill tell me how to use square braces in regex. I am using the following to find:

[code]#LINK[/LINK]#Usi

to find all text between [LINK] and [/LINK]
[/code]

2

Escape the square brackets with \.

3

As i was asking this question I was hoping Kem was online. Always good for Regex help, thanks Kem. I tried that and now have the following which does not seem to be working either

#\\[LINK\\]([^\\[]*)\\[\\/LINK\\]#Usi
4

Can you post some sample text?

5

[code][LINK]http://www.example.com[/LINK]

What I used this for
The following code was used to start my apache server from Xojo. I suspect you could replace the ‘sudo apachectl start’ code with any other command which requires sudo to run.

[CE]
Dim sh as new Shell

sh.Execute “osascript -e ‘do shell script ““sudo apachectl start”” with administrator privileges’”

TextArea1.Text = TextArea1.Text + EndOfLine + sh.Result
[/CE][/code]

7

You’re not putting the “#” and “#Usi” into the pattern, are you?

8

Yes, got it working with:

#(?<=LINK\\])(.*?)(?=\\[/LINK)#Usi