I&#39;m trying to parse the following kind of string:

    [key:&quot;val&quot; key2:&quot;val2&quot;]

where there are arbitrary key:&quot;val&quot; pairs inside. I want to grab the key name and the value. 
For those curious I&#39;m trying to parse the database format of task warrior. 

Here is my test string:

    [description:&quot;aoeu&quot; uuid:&quot;123sth&quot;]

which is meant to highlight that anything can be in a key or value aside from space, no spaces around the colons, and values are always in double quotes. 

In node, this is my output:

    [deuteronomy][gatlin][~]$ node
    &gt; var re = /^\[(?:(.+?):&quot;(.+?)&quot;\s*)+\]$/g
    &gt; re.exec(&#39;[description:&quot;aoeu&quot; uuid:&quot;123sth&quot;]&#39;);
    [ &#39;[description:&quot;aoeu&quot; uuid:&quot;123sth&quot;]&#39;,
      &#39;uuid&#39;,
      &#39;123sth&#39;,
      index: 0,
      input: &#39;[description:&quot;aoeu&quot; uuid:&quot;123sth&quot;]&#39; ]

But `description:&quot;aoeu&quot;` also matches this pattern. How can I get all matches back?

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