I want to remove the following characters: [, ], ", \ if any are at the beginning or end of a string, but not if they are in the middle.
So, if the string is ""\[\]][hello" world "\[\"]], I'd like it to become, hello" world
I can't figure out how to do it. I've tried these and many others and none seems to work:
string.replace(/^[\[+|\]+|\"+|\\+]$,"")
string.replace(/^[\[+\]+\"+\\+]$/,"")
Any help would be much appreciated.
You're close. You need two alternatives, one for the beginning and another for the end. Each should then be a character set in [] listing all the characters you want to remove.
You also need the g modifier to replace twice in the same string.
let string = '""\[\]][hello" world "\[\"]]';
console.log(string.replace(/^["\[\]\\]+|["\[\]\\]+$/g, ''));I split the problem into following subproblems:
I came up with following regex-patterns to solve these:
When working with regex, I recommend following site: regexr.com/6d193