[ and ] are metacharacters in RegExp patterns. For example, "[abc]" matches either "a", or 'b" or "c". To prevent this interpretation, escape them with a backslash.
Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derrick Anderson Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] RegExp searching for [ and ], are they reserved? hey all, i'm trying to do a replace on a string and replace anything in brackets with something else. so [this] word would get replaced, however in the regex tester at gskinner this works fine (it's flex based regex test tool) but in my local code- i always get unexpected results when my regex expression has brackets in it. private var mergeRE:RegExp = new RegExp("\[[^>]*?]","igm"); is there another escape character i need to use, why does flash have a problem searching for [ and ] in regex? thanks, d.
