This might seem trivial, but I'm new to JS. I have this piece of code:
alert(elementAction);
var argumentsBegin = elementAction.search("(");
var argumentsEnd = elementAction.search(")");
alert(argumentsBegin);
elementAction
is a string. The problem with the code is it doesn't seem to find the parenthesis. The first alert box shows for example:
outer(inner)
But the second one doesn't appear at all. All is cool if I replace () with {}, though. Any thoughts why is this not working for me?
Yes: the search()
method of strings expects a regular expression as the parameter and is treating the string you're passing as a regular expression pattern, in which parentheses have special meaning. Use indexOf()
instead:
alert( elementAction.indexOf("(") );
elementAction.search("\\(");
search is regular expression, ( is keyword in regular expression. you have to escape (
to \(
,
\(
in string is "\\("
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