Text Between Brackets

Text Between Brackets extracts every piece of text enclosed by the bracket style you choose, whether that is round parentheses, square brackets, curly braces, or angle brackets. Select the pair you want, paste your content, and the tool returns each bracketed fragment on its own line, ready to copy or export without any manual searching.

It is a handy utility for developers reading code and configuration, writers pulling asides out of prose, and analysts extracting tagged values from structured text. Instead of scanning for matching brackets by eye or hand-crafting a pattern, you pick a bracket type from a dropdown and let the tool collect every enclosed value across the whole input.

Everything runs locally in your browser with JavaScript, so nothing you paste is uploaded or stored. An optional trim setting removes stray whitespace from each result, giving you a clean list of exactly what appeared inside your chosen brackets.

Features

• Extracts text enclosed by round, square, curly, or angle brackets based on your selection.
• Lets you switch bracket styles instantly from a single dropdown without editing any pattern.
• Collects every bracketed fragment across the entire input rather than stopping at the first one.
• Keeps closely nested or adjacent values separate by matching each pair independently.
• Optionally trims leading and trailing whitespace from each extracted value for tidy output.
• Reports how many fragments were extracted so you can confirm the selection caught everything.
• Exports the results to a TXT file or copies them to the clipboard for use elsewhere.

How to use Text Between Brackets

1. Paste the text or code you want to extract from into the main input box.
2. Choose the bracket style you want from the dropdown: round, square, curly, or angle.
3. Keep the trim option enabled to remove surrounding whitespace, or disable it for verbatim values.
4. Read the extracted fragments, one per line, and check the count to confirm all matches were found.
5. Adjust the bracket type if you meant a different pair and re-read the updated results.
6. Copy the results or export them to a TXT file once the extraction looks correct.

Benefits

• Developers pull arguments, array contents, or annotations out of code and configuration quickly.
• Writers extract every parenthetical aside from a document to review or reuse them together.
• Analysts gather bracketed tags or codes from structured notes without manual scanning.
• Editors check the consistency of bracketed references across a long piece of writing.
• Anyone avoids counting matching brackets by hand in a large or deeply nested block of text.
• Local processing keeps confidential code and documents private on your own device.

Brackets are everywhere in both code and prose, and different pairs carry different meaning: round brackets group expressions and hold asides, square brackets index arrays and mark citations, curly braces delimit blocks and objects, and angle brackets wrap tags and placeholders. By letting you choose the exact pair, this tool targets just the kind of content you care about instead of mixing several bracket styles together.

Each bracketed value is matched independently, and the pattern only captures content that does not itself contain the chosen brackets, so tightly grouped values stay separate rather than being merged into one oversized result. This keeps the output faithful to how the brackets actually appear in your text, which is important when the same line contains several bracketed items in a row.

Because everything runs locally in your browser with JavaScript, your text is never uploaded or stored, making the tool safe for proprietary code and confidential writing. For deeply nested brackets where you need to reach inside an outer pair, or for more complex rules, the Regex Match Extractor gives you finer control, while Text Between Quotes handles quoted strings specifically.