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(?<=\[).+?(?=\])

(?<=) is a positive lookbehind (it looks but does not include in the find

\[ is an open bracket, you need to escape the open bracket with a backslash

.+ is any character
? is a qualifier for the shortest match, so stop and don’t find more than the shortest match

(?=) is a positive lookahead
\] is a closed bracket

All together, it’s – look for an open bracket but don’t include it, then find any text in it’s shortest string, up to, but don’t include a closed bracket.

This finds all text within a [….]