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Multiple replacements in a string are not working properly #48
Description
I am using react-string-replace for translations. I have a string and I want to replace a couple of substitutes.
The code looks like this:
ReactStringReplace(
'[link]This is my link[/link] available everywhere or [shortcode].',
/(\[link\].*\[\/link\])|(\[shortcode\])/g,
(match) => {
console.log('match', match);
}
)
From my understanding, my regular expression should match only the first link and the [shortcode]. But the result in the console looks like this:
match [link]This is my link[/link]
match available everywhere or
match [shortcode]
I don't understand why is the middle match there. It doesn't match the regular expression.
Reacted by Aaron Zhong and balibabu
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mikelpmc commentedon Jan 28, 2020
It seems like the library only accepts one group on the passed regex.
Try it with
/(\[link\].*\[\/link\]|\[shortcode\])/gThe output now should be:
match [link]This is my link[/link]match [shortcode]nahumzs commentedon Oct 10, 2020
this totally took my off-balance, shouldn't this be part of the README.md page? :)
I can do the PR if you feel like this is relevant information for anyone who wants to use the library.