Get text between two rounded brackets

6 thoughts on “Get text between two rounded brackets”

1. var txt = "This is (my) simple text";
   re = /\((.*)\)/;
   console.log(txt.match(re)[1]);​
   

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2. 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]);
   };
   

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3. 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.

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4. to return multiple items within rounded brackets

    var res2=str.split(/(|)/);
   
     var items=res2.filter((ele,i)=>{
     if(i%2!==0) {
     return ele;
     }
   });
   

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5. 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))
   

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6. to get fields from string formula.

   var txt = "{{abctext/lsi)}} = {{abctext/lsi}} + {{adddddd}} / {{ttttttt}}";
   re = /\{{(.*?)\}}/g;
   console.log(txt.match(re));
   

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