I need the parse text with links in the following formats:

[html title](http://www.htmlpage.com)
http://www.htmlpage.com
https://i.sstatic.net/rDDPu.jpg

The output for those two strings would be:

<a href='http://www.htmlpage.com'>html title</a>
<a href='http://www.htmlpage.com'>http://www.htmlpage.com</a>
<a href='https://i.sstatic.net/rDDPu.jpg'>https://i.sstatic.net/rDDPu.jpg</a>

The string could include an arbitrary amount of these links, ie:

[html title](http://www.htmlpage.com)[html title](http://www.htmlpage.com)
[html title](http://www.htmlpage.com)   [html title](http://www.htmlpage.com)
[html title](http://www.htmlpage.com) wejwelfj http://www.htmlpage.com

output:

<a href='http://www.htmlpage.com'>html title</a><a href='http://www.htmlpage.com'>html title</a>
<a href='http://www.htmlpage.com'>html title</a>    <a href='http://www.htmlpage.com'>html title</a>
<a href='http://www.htmlpage.com'>html title</a> wejwelfj <a href='http://www.htmlpage.com'>http://www.htmlpage.com</a>

I have an extremely long function that does an alright job by passing over the string 3 times, but I can't successfully parse this string:

[This](http://i.imgur.com/iIlhrEu.jpg) one got me crying first, then once the floodgates were opened [this](http://i.imgur.com/IwSNFVD.jpg) one did it again and [this](http://i.imgur.com/hxIwPKJ.jpg). Ugh, feels. Gotta go hug someone/something.

For brevity, I'll post the regular expressions I've tried rather than the entire find/replace function:

var matchArray2 = inString.match(/\[.*\]\(.*\)/g);

for matching [*](*), doesn't work because []()[]() is matched

Really that's it, I guess. Once I make that match

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