Building on this question: Regular expression to extract text between square brackets
this is a [sample] string with [some] special words. [another one]
I need to extract the text between [sample] and [some] plus the two boundaries too. In other word I want the regex that matches [sample] string with [some]
Try this:
/\[sample\].*?\[some\]/
You just need to escape the square brackets and use a lazy match between your markers.
See it here on Regexr.
If the text can be on several rows, you need to enable the dotall mode additionally with the s modifier:
/\[sample\].*?\[some\]/s
this makes the . also match newline characters, what it is not doing by default.
See it here on Regexr
