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**evans123** · 04-12-2009, 03:59 PM

Is it possible to have a regex function find all text within two square brackets

['PLAYER', '29', '280.4', '90.5', 'Benito Basso']

so it just gets 'PLAYER', '29', '280.4', '90.5', 'Benito Basso'

**JeremyMiller** · 04-13-2009, 05:20 AM

What's your goal? A RegEx for this seems a bit much -- you could just trim off the first and last character too or, if you want to have an array, you could explode by ',' and trim [, ', and ] characters from the first and last entry in the array.

**dimok** · 04-13-2009, 05:46 AM

it should be the following:

Code:

\[(.+)\]

**evans123** · 04-13-2009, 06:06 AM

theres going to be loads of [player,x,x,x,x,] etc.

**evans123** · 04-13-2009, 06:21 AM

When i use that regex it just returns "."

Code:

var regexstring = new RegExp("\[(.+)\]");
var myregexp =regexstring.exec(data);

**JeremyMiller** · 04-13-2009, 06:52 AM

Size doesn't seem to matter:

HTML Code:

<html>
<head>
<script>
var square_bracket_text = "[";
var prefix_string = "";
for (var i=0;i<1000;i++) {
  square_bracket_text += prefix_string + "'" + (Math.floor(Math.random(0,1)*100)) + "'";
  prefix_string = ",";
}
square_bracket_text += "]";

function demo() {
  document.getElementById('original').innerHTML = square_bracket_text;
  document.getElementById('results').innerHTML = square_bracket_text.substring(1,square_bracket_text.length-1);
}
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="demo();">
<div id="original"></div>
<div id="results"></div>
</body>
</html>