Regex to grab strings between square brackets

Question

I have the following string: pass[1][2011-08-21][total_passes]

How would I extract the items between the square brackets into an array? I tried

Answer 1

I'm not sure if you can get this directly into an array. But the following code should work to find all occurences and then process them:

var string = "pass[1][2011-08-21][total_passes]";
var regex = /\[([^\]]*)\]/g;

while (match = regex.exec(string)) {
   alert(match[1]);
}

Please note: i really think you need the character class [^\]] here. Otherwise in my test the expression would match the hole string because ] is also matches by .*.