javascript - regex include text inside brackets -

i want alert text inside brackets. can when have square brackets.

    = "1[the]"     words = a.match(/[^[\]]+(?=])/g);     alert(words); 

but can't going round brackets ()

i have tried few different things don't quite have head around need change here.

    = "1(the)"     words = a.match(/(^[\])+(?=])/g);     alert(words);      = "1(the)"     words = a.match(/[^(\)]+(?=])/g);     alert(words);      = "1(the)"     words = a.match(/[^[\]]+(?=))/g);     alert(words);      = "1(the)"     words = a.match(/[^[\]]+(?=])/g);     alert(words); 

where going wrong?

you current regex doesn't technically words inside brackets. example, if string "foobar)" match "foobar".

try like:

a = "1(the) foo(bar)" regexp = /\((.*?)\)/g  // loop through matches match = regexp.exec(a) while (match != null) {     alert(match[1]) # match[1] captured group 1     match = regexp.exec(a) }