Simple regex replace brackets

Question

Is there an easy way to make this string:

(53.5595313, 10.009969899999987)

to this String

[53.5595313, 10.009969899999987]

with JavaScript or jQuery?

I tried with multiple replace which seems not so elegant to me

 str = str.replace("(","[").replace(")","]")

Answer 1

Well, since you asked for regex:

var input = "(53.5595313, 10.009969899999987)";
var output = input.replace(/^\((.+)\)$/,"[$1]");

// OR to replace all parens, not just one at start and end:
var output = input.replace(/\(/g,"[").replace(/\)/g,"]");

...but that's kind of complicated. You could just use .slice():

var output = "[" + input.slice(1,-1) + "]";

Answer 2

For what it's worth, to replace both ( and ) use:

str = "(boob)";
str = str.replace(/[\(\)]/g, ""); // yields "boob"

regex character meanings:

[  = start a group of characters to look for
\( = escape the opening parenthesis
\) = escape the closing parenthesis
]  = close the group
g  = global (replace all that are found)

Edit

Actually, the two escape characters are redundant and eslint will warn you with:

Unnecessary escape character: ) no-useless-escape

The correct form is:

str.replace(/[()]/g, "")