Question

Im trying to run a very basic Google Script on a document.
docBody = docBody.replaceText(searchStr, replaceStr);

It works perfectly when the searchStr = ‘Name’ for example, but when I try to replace ‘[Name]’ the script hangs and produces garbage in the document. I realise that the searchStr parameter is a regular expression and I have tried :

\[Name\]

/\[Name\]/g

(\[Name\])

All with no success…

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

If you’re doing

searchStr = '\[Name\]';

then that should work, without slashes, without modifiers, without groups. If you’re using double-quotes, make sure to double-escape:

searchStr = "\\[Name\\]";