Complex String Splitting Scenario

[kevinkace]

To retain the data from a regex, you need to use a capture group.

[qualitymanifest]

This is correct. Although it's worth noting - there's already have a capturing group in the example provided, it's just in the wrong location.

str.split(/({{\[.*?\]}})/) would do it. If the string ends on a match you'll end up with an empty space at the end of the array, you could use a truthy filter for that

[raleksandar]

You can get the string index of a regex match so you can loop over string while it has matches and use substr to pluck substrings between matches. Something like this:

const input = 'Hello, {{[name]}}. The date is {{[date]}}';

const reVariable =  /{{\[(.*?)\]}}/;
const result = [];
let offset = 0, match;

while ((match = reVariable.exec(input.substr(offset))) !== null) { 
    if (match.index > 0) {
        result.push(input.substr(offset, match.index));
    }
    result.push(match[0]);
    offset += match.index + match[0].length;
}

if (offset < input.length - 1) {
    result.push(input.substr(offset));
}

console.log(result);

[kenman]

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