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This regex shows a warning in IntelliJ: `Redundant character escape '\\]' in RegExp`

However, if I remove it, browsers complain about invalid regex.

Did I miss something?

```private val imageLinkRegex = "!\\[[^\\[]+\\]\\([^)]+\\)".toRegex()```


IntelliJ seems correct. Paste your regex into <http://regex101.com|regex101.com>. Then in another tab, paste the same regex without escaping the "]". Compare the difference between the two tabs.

Regex implementations are different based on each platform, so I really recommend to test it on each platform and not blindly trust IntelliJ focussing on JVM. 

Chrome 126.0.6478.127 accepts `const re = new RegExp("!\\[[^\\[]+]\\([^)]+\\)");` (i.e. no escape) for me

There are two things to improve:

• regex is different per KMP target, +1 this issue <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-49557/Different-dialects-of-regular-expressions-in-JS-and-other-platforms>
• IJ inspections only consider the Java regex engine. I don't know if there's a :youtrack: issue for this