filter? replace? wildcard? reg exp? help please!

[J. Landman Gay]

On 5/9/17 11:16 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
> On 5/9/17 10:41 PM, Nicolas Cueto via use-livecode wrote:
>> Given this snippet...
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> CANTO XXXIV
>> CÍRCULO IX: TRAIDORES.
>> «Vexilla regis prodeunt[307] del Abismo
>> hacia nosotros[308], mas delante mira
>> 3—dijo el maestro— y los verás tú mismo.»
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> ... how do I use LC to remove the square-brackets and any string within
>> them, so that the snippet becomes...
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> CANTO XXXIV
>> CÍRCULO IX: TRAIDORES.
>> «Vexilla regis prodeunt del Abismo
>> hacia nosotros, mas delante mira
>> 3—dijo el maestro— y los verás tú mismo.»
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> This is about the only thing I know how to do with regext. :)
>
> on fix
>   put fld 1 into tText
>   put "\[.*\]" into tRegEx
>   put replacetext(tText,tRegEx,empty) into fld 2
> end fix
>

You'd probably want it to be a function though:

function removeBrackets pString
   return replacetext(pString,"\[.*\]",empty)
end removeBrackets

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