how to replace special character other than "[" and "]"

I am using regex replace function as to r开发者_运维知识库eplace some special character, but i do not want to replace [ and ] also , how can i do this

query=query.replace(/[^a-zA-Z 0-9 *?:.+\-_]+/g,'');

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Try: query=query.replace(/[^a-zA-Z 0-9 *?:.+-_\[\]]+/g,'');

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You can use the pattern:

/[^ \w*?:.+\][-]+/g

Make sure to escape the dash or place it last/first in the character class. Replaced a-zA-Z0-9_ with \w.