Finding parenthesis via regular expression

Question

I am not great with regular expressions. I am looking to find if a string contains \"( ),[ ], { }\". Note, I am not looking for the contents in the actual ( ), just to see if

Answer 1

If you want to check for matching parens / brackets / braces, this will work:

/\(.*\)|\{.*\}|\[.*\]/

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And this returns the matching portions of your string:

>> "alkd(jfla)kjd{adlkfj}alkjfd".scan(/\(.*\)|\{.*\}|\[.*\]/)
=> ["(jfla)", "{adlkfj}"]