How Can I Match This Regular expression?
ghgdfgfd(bbb)
I used This:
bot.onText(/\ghgdfgfd(bbb)/
But this does not work for me.
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Gaurav joshi
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2`(` has special meaning in regex. You will have to escape it. – Rajesh Feb 15 '17 at 06:41
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1Possible duplicate of [Regular Expression to match outer brackets](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/546433/regular-expression-to-match-outer-brackets) – Rajesh Feb 15 '17 at 06:42
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What is the purpose of that initial backslash in your regex? – Robby Cornelissen Feb 15 '17 at 06:44
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Appriciate it, Thank you and @Robby Cornelissen my a awnser is `/\ghgdfgfd\(bbb\)/` – Saeed Heidarizarei Feb 15 '17 at 06:46
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Thank you @Rajesh – Saeed Heidarizarei Feb 15 '17 at 07:03
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You have to escape the parentheses, otherwise they're interpreted as grouping operators:
/ghgdfgfd\(bbb\)/
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@Rajesh It's a complete answer to the question, why should it? – Robby Cornelissen Feb 15 '17 at 06:42
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Because this is a very common problem and there are many posts on how to escape special characters and should be marked as duplicate – Rajesh Feb 15 '17 at 06:44
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@Rajesh Agree about the marking as duplicate. That's different from it having to be a comment though. – Robby Cornelissen Feb 15 '17 at 06:45
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My point was instead of answering, you should have added a comment and then mark it as duplicate. Answering a basic problem will encourage people to post question without searching. – Rajesh Feb 15 '17 at 06:47
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@Rajesh Fair point. After you sought out the duplicate, I voted to close as duplicate as well. – Robby Cornelissen Feb 15 '17 at 06:49