[Javascript] OT: RegExp

[Flavio Gomes]

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Flavio Gomes
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Shawn Milo wrote:

>I don't think it's off-topic -- it's still Javascript.
>
>Here is the code:
>
>         var someQuery = "select name, (select 'subselect', 2+2 as sum, 5*3 as product from my_table) from another_table where number = (select id_nro from third_table where birthdate is not null)"
>
>         document.write(someQuery + '<br/>');
>
>         someQuery = someQuery.replace(/\([^)]*\)/g, '');
>
>         document.write(someQuery + '<br/>');
>
>
>explanation of regex:
>
>find a ( followed by anything that is not a ) for any number of characters (including zero),
>followed by a ).  Replace the entire thing with an empty string.
>
>The '(' and ')' are escaped '\(' and '\)'  because parenthesis have 
>meaning in regexes.
>
>Shawn 
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