tips for distilling arrays from Markdown?

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You can get the link text (or rather link content, as links can contain other elements) via .textContent. I’ve set up a complete example here:

String.matchAll() is still a proposal, and support is spotty. A compatible implementation might look like this:

function getLinks(text) {
  const pattern = /\[(?<text>.+?)\]\((?<href>.+?)\)/g, matches = [];
  let m;
  while(m = pattern.exec(text)) matches.push(m.groups);
  return matches;
}

This version uses named capture groups, so that the returned array will look something like this:

[{text: "My link text", href: "http://example.com"}, ...]
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