Parsing tag data

[StarGeek]

I'm trying to figure out the best way to print out part of a tag, in this case the Caption-Abstract.  In the tag, there's some data I want to print out that's between an end bracket+whitespace and a whitespace+start bracket ([bbcode] Data I want [/bbcode]).  I'm currently using this command
exiftool -p "${caption-abstract;s/.*?\]\s(.*?)\s\[.*/$1/s}" <file>
and that sorta feels messy and I'm wondering if I'm missing an easier solution due to my lack of Perl knowledge.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

[Phil Harvey]

Sometimes regular expressions can be messy.  The only alternative I can suggest right now isn't much better:

"${caption-abstract;/\]\s*(.*?)\s*\[/;$_=$1}"

- Phil

[StarGeek]

Sounds good, thanks.

I was just thinking I might have been missing a simpler solution.