Multi-dimensional array regex hell

the-bottom.js

// 3- Take listItemsArray and loop through it w/ regex
for (var i = 0; i < listItemsArray.length; i++) {

  // 4- Use regex to break each list item into five pieces
  listItemsTemp[i] = listItemsArray[i].match(/(<li\b(?:>\s+(?:id="([^"]*)"|class="([^"]*)")|[^\s>]+|\s+)*>)|((<\w+\b>)|(<a\shref=".*">)|(.+?(?=<))|(<\/\w+\b)>)/g);

  // 5- Setup listItemsRearranged[i] with an array of listItemsTemp.length
  listItemsRearranged[i] = new Array(listItemsTemp.length);

  // 6- Take listItemsTemp and reassign positions
  // We can do this because our string will always have five pieces
  listItemsRearranged[i][0] = listItemsTemp[i][1];
  listItemsRearranged[i][1] = listItemsTemp[i][0];
  listItemsRearranged[i][2] = listItemsTemp[i][2];
  listItemsRearranged[i][3] = listItemsTemp[i][4];
  listItemsRearranged[i][4] = listItemsTemp[i][3];

  // 7- Join the array back into a string
  listItemsRearrangedConcat[i] = listItemsRearranged[i].join("");
}