Filtering data with jquery

Question

Ok i have this problem... I want to take out some text from a string and that text is held between () brackets and the string looks like this var a = validate(password) I want to take out the password ;) thx in forward Vanja

Answer 1

Use plain old JS .replace() method with an regular expression:

var a = "validate(password)";
a = a.replace(/\(.*?\)/g, "()");
// will result in a = "validate()"

This will remove every substring that is enclosed in brackets.

Update:

If you want to get the value, you can use .match():

var a = "validate(password)";
var match = a.match(/\(.*?(?=\))/);

This will get any value enclosed in brackets. But as JS does not support lookbehind, you will get "(password". Removing the first character is easy though:

match = match.substring(1);

Update 2
If you know that there will only be one value enclosed in brackets than you can also do it without regex:

a = a.substring(a.indexOf('(')+1, a.indexOf(')'));

Answer 2

Ok this is the solution var str = "validate(password)"; var bar = str.substring(9); var end = bar.replace(')','');