Parsing text inside brackets using regexp

Question

I have a text in which I can not put html tags, to make links I would use syntax like wiki [go to the app](http://foo.com), I would like to extract text using regular expressions and transform the text into html. I tried using the regular expression \\[.\\) But it doesn't seems to work.

Pattern wikiLink = Pattern.compile("\\[.\\)");
Matcher mURL = wikiLink.matcher(content);
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
while (mURL.find()) {
  ...
}

Answer 1

If I understand your question correctly:

\[.*?\]\(http://.*?\)

this regular expression will find all text of the form

[text](http://url)