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B Robster
B Robster

Reputation: 42003

Javascript regex or other parsing technique to extract the contents of last set of parentheses in a string

I need to extract the rightmost parenthetical (the last one) from a string that has 1-N parentheticals.

For example, in Some title (8888)(123, bar)(1000, foo) I want to get the contents of the last set of parentheses, i.e. 1000, foo. There will always be at least one parenthetical, but may be more than one.

I am fine with using regex, or other string parsing techniques.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 86

Answers (3)

Firas Dib
Firas Dib

Reputation: 2621

Assuming they are not nested you can simply do: /\(([^\)]+)\)$/

var foo = "Some title (8888)(123, bar)(1000, foo)";
// Get your result with
foo.match(/\(([^\)]+)\)$/)[1];

Demonstration: http://regex101.com/r/tS2yS1

Upvotes: 3

Angga
Angga

Reputation: 2323

follow this link

you will see with that regex .*\((.+)\) you can get $1(group one) as your wanted content

Upvotes: 1

falsetru
falsetru

Reputation: 368954

Match all parentheticals, and get the last one.

> 'Some title (8888)(123, bar)(1000, foo)'.match(/\(.*?\)/g).pop()
"(1000, foo)"

> var x = 'Some title (8888)(123, bar)(1000, foo)'.match(/\(.*?\)/g).pop(); x.substr(1, x.length-2)
"1000, foo"

Upvotes: 0

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