Regex: Match every occurrence of dash in between two specific symbols-CodePudding

I have this string: ](-test-word-another)

I'm trying to find every single occurrence of - in between ] and ) Basically the return should be: ](-test-word-another)

Currently I have (?<=\]\()(-)(?=\)) but that just finds if there is only one -

Thank you in advance

CodePudding user response：

Try this: /(?<=\]. )-(?=. \))/gm

Test here: https://regex101.com/r/xkmTZs/1

This basically matches all - only if they occur after a ] and before ).

CodePudding user response：

You can use

text.replace(/]\([^()]*\)/g, (x) => x.replace(/-/g, '_'))

See the demo below:

const text = 'Word-word ](-test-word-another) text-text-.';
console.log( text.replace(/]\([^()]*\)/g, (x) => x.replace(/-/g, '_')) );

The ]\([^()]*\) regex matches a ]( substring, then any zero or more chars other than ( and ) and then a ), and then all - chars inside the match value (x here) are replaced with _ using (x) => x.replace(/-/g, '_').

Another, single regex solution can look like

(?<=]\((?:(?!]\()[^)])*)-(?=[^()]*\))

See this regex demo. It matches any - that is immediately preceded with ]( and any zero or more chars other than ) that does not start a ]( char sequence, and is immediately followed with any zero or more chars other than ( and ) and then a ) char.