Javascript BBCode Parser recognizes only first list element
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I have a really simple Javascript BBCode Parser for client-side live preview (don't want to use Ajax for that). The problem ist, this parser only recognizes the first list element:
function bbcode_parser(str) {
search = new Array(
      /\[b\](.*?)\[\/b\]/,  
      /\[i\](.*?)\[\/i\]/,
      /\[img\](.*?)\[\/img\]/,
      /\[url\="?(.*?)"?\](.*?)\[\/url\]/,
      /\[quote](.*?)\[\/quote\]/,
      /\[list\=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/list\]/i,
      /\[list\]([\s\S]*?)\[\/list\]/i,
      /\[\*\]\s?(.*?)\n/);
replace = new Array(
      "<strong>$1</strong>",
      "<em>$1</em>",
      "<img src=\"$1\" alt=\"An image\">",
      "<a href=\"$1\">$2</a>",
      "<blockquote>$1</blockquote>",
      "<ol>$2</ol>",
      "<ul>$1</ul>",
      "<li>$1</li>");
for (i = 0; i < search.length; i++) {
    str = str.replace(search[i], replace[i]);
}
return str;}
[list]
[*] adfasdfdf
[*] asdfadsf
[*] asdfadss
[/list]  
only the first element is converted to a HTML List element, the rest stays as BBCode:
[*] asdfadss
I tried playing around with "\s", "\S" and "\n" but I'm mostly used to PHP Regex and totally new to Javascript Regex. Any suggestions?
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