Question

I want to get everything in the square brackets in this phrase, including the brackets:

“Abcd [in brackets] xyz”

I have tried this:

re.search(r’.[.])’)

but it doesn’t give what I am looking for, not sure how to match the second bracket

Answer 1

The regex expression you need is something like:

\[[^\]]*\]

See a demo of the above expression.

You will need to adapt it depending on your programming language.

re.search(r'.[.])') appears to be python, so try:

>>> import re
>>> str = "ABC [in brackets] xyz"
>>> re.search('\[[^\]]*\]',str).group(0)
'[in brackets]'