Get text between two rounded brackets
JavascriptRegexJavascript Problem Overview
How can I retrieve the word my from between the two rounded brackets in the following sentence using a regex in JavaScript?
> "This is (my) simple text"
Javascript Solutions
Solution 1 - Javascript
console.log(
"This is (my) simple text".match(/\(([^)]+)\)/)[1]
);
\( being opening brace, ( — start of subexpression, [^)]+ — anything but closing parenthesis one or more times (you may want to replace + with *), ) — end of subexpression, \) — closing brace. The match() returns an array ["(my)","my"] from which the second element is extracted.
Solution 2 - Javascript
var txt = "This is (my) simple text";
re = /\((.*)\)/;
console.log(txt.match(re)[1]);
Solution 3 - Javascript
You may also try a non-regex method (of course if there are multiple such brackets, it will eventually need looping, or regex)
init = txt.indexOf('(');
fin = txt.indexOf(')');
console.log(txt.substr(init+1,fin-init-1))
Solution 4 - Javascript
For anyone looking to return multiple texts in multiple brackets
var testString = "(Charles) de (Gaulle), (Paris) [CDG]"
var reBrackets = /\((.*?)\)/g;
var listOfText = [];
var found;
while(found = reBrackets.exec(testString)) {
listOfText.push(found[1]);
};
Solution 5 - Javascript
Use this to get text between closest ( and ):
const string = "This is (my) (simple (text)"
console.log( string.match(/\(([^()]*)\)/)[1] )
console.log( string.match(/\(([^()]*)\)/g).map(function($0) { return $0.substring(1,$0.length-1) }) )
Results: my and ["my","text"].
EXPLANATION
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\( '('
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( group and capture to \1:
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[^()]* any character except: '(', ')' (0 or
more times (matching the most amount
possible))
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) end of \1
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\) ')'
Solution 6 - Javascript
to get fields from string formula.
var txt = "{{abctext/lsi)}} = {{abctext/lsi}} + {{adddddd}} / {{ttttttt}}";
re = /\{{(.*?)\}}/g;
console.log(txt.match(re));
Solution 7 - Javascript
to return multiple items within rounded brackets
var res2=str.split(/(|)/);
var items=res2.filter((ele,i)=>{
if(i%2!==0) {
return ele;
}
});