Regex to remove spaces between ‘[‘ and ‘]’

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If brackets are always balanced correctly and if they are never nested, then you can do it:

result = subject.replace(/\s+(?=[^[\]]*\])/g, "");

This replaces whitespace characters if and only if there is a ] character ahead in the string with no intervening [ or ] characters.

Explanation:

\s+       # Match whitespace characters
(?=       # if it's possible to match the following here:
 [^[\]]*  # Any number of characters except [ or ]
 \]       # followed by a ].
)         # End of lookahead assertion.

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