Is there anyone around who can create a regular expression for me?

I have data that looks like this:

SMITH, JOHN (1949)

I need a regular expression to return the number inside the parenthesis. Otherwise, I can just do it without a regular expression.

What language are you writing the regular expression in? PHP?

Javascript. Using a string object.

a = s.match("\\\\(\\\\d+\\\\)")

Where a is either null or an array containing the result.

Thanks!

Any way to do this without returning the parenthesis?

I think "\\\\((\\\\d+)\\\\)" will work.

Almost. I get something like (2104),2104

That is the way that the match function works. Just pop the value off of the array that it returns.

OK, I see that now.

Cool! Thanks!

eta: I was doing an alert on the result. Didn't realize you could alert an array!

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