What s the regular expression that matches a square bracket

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I want a regex that matches a square bracket    I haven t found one yet  I think I tried all possibilities  but haven t found the right one  What is a valid regex for this

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If you want to remove the   or the    use the expression               The two backslashes escape the square bracket and the pipe is an  or

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Try using      or simply

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Are you escaping it with            Here s a helpful resource to get started with Regular Expressions   Regular-Expressions info

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If you re looking to find both variations of the square brackets at the same time  you can use the following pattern which defines a range of either the   sign or the   sign

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If you want to match an expression starting with   and ending with    use

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does it work with an antislash before the         or

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In general  when you need a character that is  special  in regexes  just prefix it with a    So a literal   would be

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How about using backslash   in front of the square bracket  Normally square brackets match a character class

[regex] What's the regular expression that matches a square bracket?

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