replace dot convention array to square brackets

Question

I have a string that represent array:

context.something.1.nothing  

The regex pattern would be: \\.\\d+ .

How to replace it to the following format:

context.something[1].nothing  

Of course the array can be any length.

Answer 1

You could accomplish it in the following way ....

 var arr = 'context.something.1.nothing'; var newArr = arr.replace(/\\.(\\d+)/, '[$1]'); console.log(newArr);