https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/JSL-Regex-matching-square-brackets/m-p/845291#M101995 <P>You need to do some extra escaping for the opening</P> <PRE><CODE class=" language-jsl">str = "i am {name} [age]"; reg = Regex(str, "\!\[\w+\]");</CODE></PRE> <P><A href="https://www.jmp.com/support/help/en/18.1/jmp/jsl-syntax-rules.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.jmp.com/support/help/en/18.1/jmp/jsl-syntax-rules.shtml</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Edit: Some explanation here <LI-MESSAGE title="How do you replace square brackets &amp;quot;[&amp;quot; &amp;quot;]&amp;quot; in a string with Regex?" uid="263954" url="https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/How-do-you-replace-square-brackets-quot-quot-quot-quot-in-a/m-p/263954#U263954" discussion_style_icon_css="lia-mention-container-editor-message lia-img-icon-forum-thread lia-fa-icon lia-fa-forum lia-fa-thread lia-fa"></LI-MESSAGE>&nbsp;(<EM>JMP strings make a special case of \[ and ]\ anywhere in a JMP string to turn off JMP's escaping.</EM>)</P> Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:56:44 GMT jthi 2025-03-03T16:56:44Z https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/JSL-Regex-matching-square-brackets/m-p/845279#M101994 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="ithomasja_0-1741020356758.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.jmp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/73503iCAB712E19F5F43E6/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="ithomasja_0-1741020356758.png" alt="ithomasja_0-1741020356758.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>\[ doesnt seem to go well within quotes.. Is there a solution here?</P> Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:46:24 GMT https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/JSL-Regex-matching-square-brackets/m-p/845279#M101994 ithomasja 2025-03-03T16:46:24Z https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/JSL-Regex-matching-square-brackets/m-p/845291#M101995 <P>You need to do some extra escaping for the opening</P> <PRE><CODE class=" language-jsl">str = "i am {name} [age]"; reg = Regex(str, "\!\[\w+\]");</CODE></PRE> <P><A href="https://www.jmp.com/support/help/en/18.1/jmp/jsl-syntax-rules.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.jmp.com/support/help/en/18.1/jmp/jsl-syntax-rules.shtml</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Edit: Some explanation here <LI-MESSAGE title="How do you replace square brackets &amp;quot;[&amp;quot; &amp;quot;]&amp;quot; in a string with Regex?" uid="263954" url="https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/How-do-you-replace-square-brackets-quot-quot-quot-quot-in-a/m-p/263954#U263954" discussion_style_icon_css="lia-mention-container-editor-message lia-img-icon-forum-thread lia-fa-icon lia-fa-forum lia-fa-thread lia-fa"></LI-MESSAGE>&nbsp;(<EM>JMP strings make a special case of \[ and ]\ anywhere in a JMP string to turn off JMP's escaping.</EM>)</P> Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:56:44 GMT https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/JSL-Regex-matching-square-brackets/m-p/845291#M101995 jthi 2025-03-03T16:56:44Z