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in thread Can't quite get this regex working

Careful, when the delimiters are doubled, the file format might allow a single ] or [ on the inside, in which case the negated char class doesn't work.

In that case you can use 

(?s:(?!\]\]).)*

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Re^4: Can't quite get this regex working
by JavaFan (Canon) on Apr 08, 2011 at 11:50 UTC
    I much prefer: 
    /[^]]*(?:][^]]+)*/

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    which doesn't require any lookahead, backtracking or modifiers.
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