[Question] How do I use advanced blocking to block videos with [ in the title?

[Konuchi]

This does not work:

(video, objectType) => {
 if (video.title.match("["))
     {
       return true;
  }
  return false;
}

[cobaltdr]

Why not use a regex instead if all you want to do is block videos with [ in the title?

/\[/gm

In the video title box on its own line should achieve this. Unless you're looking to understand how the advanced blocking feature works (I've not used it, so cannot comment).

\ takes the next character literally gm for global multiline match

[Konuchi]

Because I don't want to block the videos on the channel pages or in search.

[cobaltdr]

(video, objectType) => { if (video.title.match("[")) { return true; } return false; }

Works here.

[Konuchi]

It's not working for me.

[cobaltdr]

Is it an actual [ character or have they been sneaky and used a visually similar but different character?

[Konuchi]

It's an actual [ character. I copied and pasted to be sure.

[ewonais]

"$" is also a special character for matching, you nead to dubbel escape it: if (video.title.match("\$20") return true; blocks videos containing "$20" in the title probobly the same shuld work for "["

[Konuchi]

That also does not work.

[ClawhammerLobotomy]

Have you tried using double backslash? (video, objectType) => { if (video.title.match("\\[")) { return true; } return false; } I just tested this with your example which did not work, but adding double backslash did for me.

string.match() uses a regex pattern and you need to escape both the bracket and the backslash for it to match a literal bracket.

[Konuchi]

That works. Thank you so much, also for explaining why it works.