Regular expression to match brackets

Question

For a templating engine, I am using regular expressions to identify content under brackets in a string. For example the regex needs to match {key} or or [element

Answer 1

you could use alternatives using pipe character (|) like this one /\[([\s\S]+?)\]|\{([\s\S]+?)\}|<([\s\S]+?)>/, although it gets pretty long.

EDIT: shortend the regex, is not that long any more...