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Regex to replace markdown links with their rendered HTML counterpart
// convert a string of markdown that has anchor tags into it to have the rendered anchor tags
const html = `your markdown goes here`
const r = /\[(.*)\]\((.*)\)/gmi
function linkReplacer(match, p1, p2) {
return `<a href="${p2}" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer">${p1}</a>`
}
const newHtml = html.replace(r, linkReplacer)
console.log(newHtml)
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