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Visual Studio Code – Regex with start and end that could be different

I am trying to search and replace in VS code thousands of instances, etc.

Sample String:

[[123|123]] and [[4567|4567]], also [[89|89]].

Finding [[.*|(.*)]] and replacing with [[$1]]. It finds [[123|123]] and [[4567|4567]], also [[89|89]]turns the whole string into [[123]].. The values inside the brackets could be any length of characters, but the pipe does separate them.

I tried anchoring start and end with ^[[.*|(.*)]]$, but then nothing matched.

Wanted result:

[[123]] and [[456]], also [[789]].
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    I found the answer, but I don't know why it works. I was just continuing to play and found that this works for the search:

    [[.*?|(.*?)]]

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    If you want to find anything in between the brackets ([[ ]]), you need to filter for any character, which is not ] instead of any character (.).
    If not it will select the whole string.

    [^t]* = is every character except t

    [^]]* = is every character except ]

    So try [[[^]]*]] as regex

    Even if this does not solve your problem fully, it hopefully will give you the idea.

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