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Othman Ali
Othman Ali

Reputation: 3

extract text between multiple two brackets

I have these variables below :

let x = '5(2+1(3(4-1))';
let y = [];

I need to extract any string between () and push to array to be output like:

console.log(y); // Array should be y[4-1,3,2+1,5]

How I can solve this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 125

Answers (2)

uingtea
uingtea

Reputation: 6524

try with this regex

let x = '5(2+1(3(4-1))';
let y = [];

let regex = /\(?(\d+([+-]\d+)?)/gm;
let m
while ((m = regex.exec(x)) !== null) {
  y.push(m[1])
}
y = y.reverse()
console.log(y)

Upvotes: 1

David Mårtensson
David Mårtensson

Reputation: 7600

This can be accomplished by recursivly applying a regex getting and replacing the inner most () pair until only the last 5 is left, or by building a real parser.

Depending on how the input can look regex might not work.

But there exist no simple solution and it will depend on exactly what format you might get.

Upvotes: 0

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