how to specify text enclosed in square brackets [duplicate]

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I have a string that contains multiple occurrences of text enclosed in square brackets that I need to remove such as:

10/21/2012 12:12:15 [12:12:28] Admitted Last,First (Card #555) at Lobby Turnstile # 4 (IN) [In] [Noticed]

I tried String.replaceAll, replaceFirst using the regex "\[.*\]" which removes all the texts between the first [ and last ] and I end up with

10/21/2012 12:12:15

I'm stuck on how to specify the expression. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

use a non-greedy quantifier: "\[.*?\]"

or specifically exclude the close char: "\[[^]]*\]"