javascript replace text inside of parenthases

Question

I'm trying to replace text inside of parenthases with the same text surrounded by my text between parenthases

text.replace(/\[([^\][]+)]/g, "<span class='font-weight-bold underline'>$1</span>")

so If I have this is my [name] It replaces it to this is my name

I need something similar for parentheses.

How can I replace text globally between parentheses? It's not a simple as I thought it would be.

Possible duplicate of [RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags) — Isaac, Dec 07 '17 at 22:39

2hTu2 · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-07T23:02:22.163

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Replace your regex with text.replace(/$([^\][]+)$ */g, "$1");

edited Dec 07 '17 at 23:02

answered Dec 07 '17 at 22:54

2hTu2

Sorry Something's not right there `Invalid regular expression: /$([^\][]+)$) */: Unmatched ')'` – Train Dec 07 '17 at 23:01
Thanks it was that parenthesis at the end. – Train Dec 07 '17 at 23:04

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 07 '17 at 22:40

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Try this...

text.replace(/ *\([^)]*\) */g, "<span class='font-weight-bold underline'>$1</span>");

answered Dec 07 '17 at 22:40

curv

$1 should represent the text in the parenthases. In this case it replaces the text with $1. – Train Dec 07 '17 at 22:44

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