What does this regex pattern: \[[^]]*\] mean?

Asked May 14 '21 at 14:51

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def strip(text):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(text, "html.parser")
    text = re.sub('\[[^]]*\]', '', soup.get_text())
    pattern=r"[^a-zA-z0-9\s,']"
    text=re.sub(pattern,'',text)
    return text

In the code snippet， I can’t understand the pattern \[[^]]*\]。 I gusessed， [^] is not something. Please explain it for me， thanks！

edited May 14 '21 at 14:52

asked May 14 '21 at 14:51

millerr fu

Matches strings like `[...[ [ [ [ [...]`. There is no `[^]` pattern, there is `[^]]`, a character class matching any char but `]`. – Wiktor Stribiżew May 14 '21 at 14:52
Thanks, let me thinkI – millerr fu May 14 '21 at 14:54
Read the explanation (top-right): https://regex101.com/r/xJSEHY/1 – PM 77-1 May 14 '21 at 14:56

What does this regex pattern: \[[^]]*\] mean?

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