jQuery / Javascript search and remove string for Dollar sign, Bracket & other special characters
2th of Feb, 2010
Today I had to write some code to search for a “(” in a string, and then remove it and anything past it. This seamed simple, just use the javascript search function but it DIDNT WORK!
After a google search I luckily found that you have to cancel the special charcter with “\\” so you can use it as a normal string.
The Code
var myText = "I am a the good text ( I am the text you want to get rid of )";
var stopNumber = myText.search('\\(');
var goodText = myText.substr(0,stopNumber));
