Question

I’m trying to learn Regular Expressions but I can’t understand how to set this one up correctly as an NSRegularExpression. I need to get the contents of any parentheses in a string.

So:
Belmont (O’Hare Branch) (Forest Pk-bound)

would give me:
‘O’Hare Branch’ and ‘Forest Pk-bound’

I would really appreciate a commented example.

Thank you!

Answer 1

\(.*?\) will give you everything in between brackets. Sorry but I have no clue how to do it in a NSRegularExpression. You either have to wait for a IOS dev to come along or figure it our for yourself.

\( #escaped opening bracket
  . #match anything
  * #match . 0 - unlimited times
  ? #make the * not greedy
\) #escaped closing bracket