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

[J. Landman Gay]

On 5/12/17 2:08 AM, Thierry Douez via use-livecode wrote:
> ​Hi,
>
>
>
>>
>> function removeBrackets pString
>>   return replacetext(pString,"\[.*\]",empty)
>> end removeBrackets
>>
>>
> ​​
>
> What would be the result of next  line:?
>
> *put* removeBrackets
> ​( ​
> "1 [A] 2 [B] 3."
> ​)

An error. I did warn about my limited regex skills. :) So what should it be?

Also, that's a non-standard format for a function. I've never seen it 
written that way before.

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