Replace all instances of a pattern with regular expressions in Javascript / jQuery

Question

First off I don\'t know much about regex and need to buy a book because it\'s has proven to me to be difficult to pickup.

Ultimately I want to take a dom element, an

Answer 1

.replace(/\[([^\]]*)\]/g, link + "$1")

which means, find text between [ and ] and replace it with the value of link, the text itself and ''. This ensures matching square brackets. The 'g' means 'do it multiple times (globally)'.