I'm trying this:
str = bla [bla];
str = str.replace(/\[\]/g,);
console.log(str);
And the replace doesn't work, what am I doing wrong?
UPDATE: I'm trying to remove any square brackets in the string,
what's weird is that if I do
replace(/[/g, '')
replace(/]/g, '')
it works, but
replace(/[]/g, '');
doesn't.
It should be:
str = str.replace(/[.*?]/g,);
You don't need double backslashes () because it's not a string but a regex statement, if you build the regex from a string you do need the double backslashes ;).
It was also literally interpreting the 1 (which wasn't matching). Using .* says any value between the square brackets.
The new RegExp string build version would be:
str=str.replace(new RegExp(\[.*?\],g),);
UPDATE: To remove square brackets only:
str = str.replace(/[(.*?)]/g,$1);
Your above code isn't working, because it's trying to match [] (sequentially without anything allowed between). We can get around this by non-greedy group-matching ((.*?)) what's between the square brackets, and using a backreference ($1) for the replacement.
UPDATE 2: To remove multiple square brackets
str = str.replace(/[+(.*?)]+/g,$1);
// bla [bla] [[blaa]] -> bla bla blaa
// bla [bla] [[[blaa] -> bla bla blaa
Note this doesn't match open/close quantities, simply removes all sequential opens and closes. Also if the sequential brackets have separators (spaces etc) it won't match.
