How to replace two consecutive special characters in string using regex?

Question

I need to replace the "[ by [ and ]" by ] combinations everytime found in this string.

I tried this but it doesn't work

var myString = myString .replace(/]"/i, /]/);

Answer 1

• need to use single quotes on the outside so that myString is actually a single string
• need a backslash before ] in regex
• do the second argument of replace as a string, not a regex probably also should use the g flag for global
• so myVar = myVar.replace( /\\]"/g, "]").replace( /"\\[/g, "[")

Answer 2

I can assume that you want to convert/format some kind of string to an object, You might take advantage of JSON.parse() function. See documentation here