How to remove square brackets in string using regex?

Question

[\'abc\',\'xyz\'] – this string I want turn into abc,xyz using regex in javascript. I want to replace both open close square bracket & single q

Answer 1

You probably don't even need string substitution for that. If your original string is JSON, try:

js> a="['abc','xyz']"
['abc','xyz']
js> eval(a).join(",")
abc,xyz

Be careful with eval, of course.