I have a list of Markdown links that look like this:
[filename-with-some-words](/001-folder/filename-with-some-words.md)
[title-with-other-words](/001-folder/title-with-other-words.md)
[other-words](/001-folder/other-words.md)
I want to replace the - that occur between square brackets [], but not those that occur between parenthesis () such that my final result would look like:
[filename with some words](/001-folder/filename-with-some-words.md)
[title with other words](/001-folder/title-with-other-words.md)
[other words](/001-folder/other-words.md)
I can match all text between brackets with (?<=\[).+?(?=\]), but how do I match only the dash -?
You may use
(?:\G(?!\A)|\[)[^][-]*\K-(?=[^][]*])
Replace with a space. See the regex demo.
Details
(?:\G(?!\A)|\[) - either the end of the previous successful match or [[^][-]* - any 0+ chars other than ], [ and -\K - match reset operator discarding all text matched so far from the whole match memory buffer- - a hyphen(?=[^][]*]) - that is followed with 0+ non-bracket chars till a ] char.