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I'm trying to convert square brackets on a form submit. I won't go into the form submission part as it's not required.
I had no problem replacing a new line with a <br /> tag like so:
new_line = message.replace(/\n/g, "<br />");
however what I'm trying to achieve now is convert [b] [/b] to <strong> </strong>. This is what I have tried so far but it doesn't seem to be working. I find regex's rather hard to grasp.
bold = message.replace(/\[b].*\[\/b]/g, '<strong>');
Can someone please point me in the right direction?
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Brackets can be removed from a string in Javascript by using a regular expression in combination with the . replace() method.
String str = "[Chrissman-@1]"; str = replaceAll("\\[\\]", ""); String[] temp = str. split("-@"); System. out. println("Nickname: " + temp[0] + " | Power: " + temp[1]);
Short for regular expression, a regex is a string of text that lets you create patterns that help match, locate, and manage text. Perl is a great example of a programming language that utilizes regular expressions. However, its only one of the many places you can find regular expressions.
Try this one...
bold = message.replace(/\[b\](.*?)\[\/b\]/g, '<strong>$1</strong>');
Try
'[b]asdf[/b]'.replace(/\[(\/?)b\]/g, '<$1strong>')
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