Parsing BBCode in Javascript

Question

I am using this (http://coursesweb.net/javascript/convert-bbcode-html-javascript_cs) as my script for parsing BBCode. I have extended the BBCodes that it can process, however I

Answer 1

JavaScript does not handle multi-line RegExp matches. Instead you have to use the [\s\S] trick described in this SO answer. Perhaps?

/\[code\][\s\S]*\[code\]/

Also RegExps probably isn't the best choice for parsing syntax. It's is extremely over complicated. I would suggest parsing the string and building an Abstract Syntax Tree then rendering the HTML from that.

Answer 2

This does the trick for me: (updated this one too to avoid confusion)

\[code\]([\s\S]*?)\[\/code\]

See regexpal and enter the following:

[code]
    code....
[/code]

[code]code.... [/code]

Update: Fixed the regex to the following and this works in the Chrome Console for me:

/\[code\]([\s\S]*?)\[\/code\]/g.exec("[code]hello world \n[/code]")