[thelist] regex: replacing bracket characters
Plunkett, Matt
MPlunkett at MSA.com
Wed Dec 10 08:45:58 CST 2003
-----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Dell'Aringa
> I want to replace the ( and ) characters in a string (for example,
> strip them out of the area code in a phone number). I can't seem to
> figure out the pattern for these characters.
> objRegExp = /()/g;
> objRegExp = /\(\)/g;
Both of these regexps try to match (), not ( or ). Try
/[\(\)]/
Brackets mean to match any character inside them.
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