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Remove Brackets from String Using JavaScript

May 9, 2022 Leave a Comment

In JavaScript, to remove brackets from a string the easiest way is to use the JavaScript String replace() method.

var someString = "[This is ]a [string with brackets]"

someString = someString.replace(/\[/g, '');
someString = someString.replace(/\]/g, '');

console.log(someString);

#Output:
This is a string with brackets

Since brackets are special characters we must escape them by putting a backslash in front of them, as seen in the code above.

Notice in the replace method above, that instead of using .replace(‘\[‘, ”) we use replace(/\[/g, ”). If we used the expression '\[' in the replace function, it only replace the FIRST instance of a bracket. Using the regular expression /\[/g makes it so we replace ALL instances of brackets in the string.

If we wanted to remove the brackets with just one code of line, we could use the following regex expression.

var someString = "[This is ]a [string with brackets]"

someString = someString.replace(/\[|\]/g, '');

console.log(someString);

#Output:
This is a string with brackets

When using string variables in JavaScript, we can easily perform string manipulation to change the value of the string variables.

One such manipulation is to remove characters from a string variable. Brackets can be troubling characters to deal with in string variables.

We can easily remove brackets from a string in JavaScript.

The easiest way to get rid of brackets in a string using JavaScript is with the JavaScript String replace() function.

The replace() function takes two arguments: the substring we want to replace, and the replacement substring. In this case, to remove brackets, we pass the bracket (“\[“) character as the first argument, and an empty string as the second argument.

Below are some examples of how you can remove brackets from strings in JavaScript using the replace() function.

var someString = "[This is ]a [string with brackets]"

someString = someString.replace(/[/g, '');
someString = someString.replace(/]/g, '');

console.log(someString);

#Output:
This is a string with brackets

Hopefully this article has been useful for you to learn how to remove brackets from a string in JavaScript.

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