Home/ Questions/Q 4054276
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-20T14:33:17+00:00

what would be the NSRegularExpression to match the text between the [ and the

  • 0

what would be the NSRegularExpression to match the text between the “[” and the “]” in the following example:

“[this is some] text i would [like] to [parse] with NSRegularExpression”

Thx in advance 🙂

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Not sure about NSRegularExpression, but I suspect it’s like other regular expressions in terms of greediness. So, if there could be multiple [words] or [phrases in brackets] that you want to capture in the same string, you’ll have to make sure the regex isn’t greedy.

    Maybe something like (broken up across a few lines for clarity:)

    \[                     // find an opening square bracket
  ([^]]+)              // find one or more characters that ARE NOT a square bracket
\]                     // find the corresponding closing square bracket
    • 0