regex - Extract links from BBcode with Ruby -

which simple method / regular expression extract links bbcode [code]...[/code] section? links begin http:// , end \n or [/code] tag, maybe space or other whitespace characters @ end.

one [code] section can contains multiple links / code tag:

[code]http://example1.com http://example2.com http://example3.com [code] 

and multiple consecutive [code] sections can occur:

[code]http://example4.com http://example5.com  [/code] [code]http://example6.com[/code] [code] http://example7.com http://example8.com[/code] 

i links such section defined above in simple flattened array, unable solve right regular expression scan method.

try one:

data = '[code]http://example4.com http://example5.com  [/code] [code]http://example6.com[/code] [code] http://example7.com http://example8.com[/code]'  p data.split(/\[\/*code\]/)       .flat_map{|el| el.split(/\s+/)}       .reject(&:empty?) 

output:

#=> ["http://example4.com", "http://example5.com", "http://example6.com", "http://example7.com", "http://example8.com"]