I have a string like this
const str = "Today is going to be @[City Temp](city-temp) in @[City Name](city-name)"
I want the output to be in handlebars syntax eg
const str = "Today is going to be {{city-temp}} in {{city-name}}"
I am having trouble trying to match this pattern.
I can see that if I do
str.replace(/[()]/g,"")
I get the string without the brackets.
But I can't work out how to search for the whole pattern something like the below where I find anything starting with @[ and ending with ), I don't want to just start with @ by itself as there may be times in the string I don't want to remove the @ where it is not followed by a [
/[\@\[A-Za-z0-9\](A-Za-z0-9-)
You can use
str = str.replace(/@\[[^\][]*]\(([^()]*)\)/g, "{{$1}}")
See the regex demo. Details:
@\[ - a @[ string[^\][]* - zero or more chars other than [ and ]]\( - a ]( string([^()]*) - Group 1 ($1): any zero or more chars other than ( and )\) - a ) char.See the JavaScript demo:
const str = "Today is going to be @[City Temp](city-temp) in @[City Name](city-name)"
console.log(str.replace(/@\[[^\][]*]\(([^()]*)\)/g, "{{$1}}"))