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Expand Up @@ -23,16 +23,15 @@ Just create a file called `filename.todo`, format it properly and you have a .to
What's important is that the first characters in each line are `-` (list), then an optional space ` `, then `[`, then optionally `x`, then `]`, then the actual todo content.

## Regex
I'm terrible at Regular Expressions (so please submit a pull request), but this is one way of handling the parsing.

```regex
^-(\s|)\[(x|)\](\s|).*$
^\s*-\s*\[x?\].*$
```

in JavaScript
with JavaScript flags,

```regex
/^-(\s|)\[(x|)\](\s|).*$/gi
/^\s*-\s*\[x?\].*$/gim
```

A test case, with this regex
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