Visual Studio find and replace right square bracket ] in character class

Question

I want to make a negated character class to match a square bracket tag like this [square bracket tag]. The problem is, the ] character ends the character class!

I tried

\[[^\]]+]

but I get a syntax error when I run it. (This is in the find and replace regex engine which is slightly different than the standard .NET engine fyi).

Does it work if you put it like `\[[^(])]+]`? – Jite Jul 11 '12 at 07:24 — Jite, Jul 11 '12 at 07:24

Damien_The_Unbeliever · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-11T07:31:21.973

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You forgot to escape the final end bracket:

\[[^\]]+\]

edited Jul 11 '12 at 07:31

answered Jul 11 '12 at 07:25

Damien_The_Unbeliever

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 11 '12 at 07:32

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The first example in msdn uses \\ for escaping the \ which then escapes the .. So you should do something like \\[[^\\]]+\\] and also as Damien_The_Unbeliever said you haven't closed the final bracket.

answered Jul 11 '12 at 07:32

bliof

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 02 '19 at 09:40

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I definitely expected escaping with "\" but it didn't work for me (grep@MacOS) but this: [^]] did the job. Just place ] as the first character in class. I actually used something like: [^]?[]

answered Jan 02 '19 at 09:40

krzank

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Visual Studio find and replace right square bracket ] in character class

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