replacement expression

[Jon Paal [MSMD]]

need some help with a str.replace expression to strip all content between any occurrence of parentheses and also remove parentheses
....

str.replace(/\([\w\s]*\)/gi, "");

any suggestions ?

[apatheticagnostic]

Re: replacement expression

On May 8, 2:06 pm, "Jon Paal [MSMD]" <Jon nospam Paal @ everywhere dot
comwrote:

need some help with a str.replace expression to strip all content between any occurrence of parentheses and also remove parentheses
...
>
str.replace(/\([\w\s]*\)/gi, "");
>
any suggestions ?

Looks like it should, although you won't be stripping digits. What's
the issue?

[Jon Paal [MSMD]]

Re: replacement expression


"apatheticagnos tic" <apatheticagnos tic@gmail.comwr ote in message
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On May 8, 2:06 pm, "Jon Paal [MSMD]" <Jon nospam Paal @ everywhere dot
comwrote:

need some help with a str.replace expression to strip all content between any occurrence of parentheses and also remove
parentheses
...
>
str.replace(/\([\w\s]*\)/gi, "");
>
any suggestions ?

Looks like it should, although you won't be stripping digits. What's
the issue?

It's not working...

sample string is :

"Electronic media (DVDs, CDs), Paper (books, photos), Textiles (clothes, linens), Furniture"

should return:

"Electronic media, Paper, Textiles, Furniture"

[apatheticagnostic]

Re: replacement expression

On May 8, 3:23 pm, "Jon Paal [MSMD]" <Jon nospam Paal @ everywhere dot
comwrote:

"apatheticagnos tic" <apatheticagnos ...@gmail.comwr ote in message
>
news:3fc20dfe-e95f-4272-b5f1-4108644186b5@m3 6g2000hse.googl egroups.com...
On May 8, 2:06 pm, "Jon Paal [MSMD]" <Jon nospam Paal @ everywhere dot
>
comwrote:

need some help with a str.replace expression to strip all content between any occurrence of parentheses and also remove
parentheses
...

>

str.replace(/\([\w\s]*\)/gi, "");

>

any suggestions ?

>
Looks like it should, although you won't be stripping digits. What's
the issue?
>
It's not working...
>
sample string is :
>
"Electronic media (DVDs, CDs), Paper (books, photos), Textiles (clothes, linens), Furniture"
>
should return:
>
"Electronic media, Paper, Textiles, Furniture"

It's the commas in the parens.

str.replace(/\([^\)]*\)/gi, '');

[Doc O'Leary]

Re: replacement expression

In article <ZIWdnV4pe96T3L 7VnZ2dnUVZ_jydn Z2d@palinacquis ition>,
"Jon Paal [MSMD]" <Jon nospam Paal @ everywhere dot comwrote:

need some help with a str.replace expression to strip all content between any
occurrence of parentheses and also remove parentheses
...
>
str.replace(/\([\w\s]*\)/gi, "");
>
any suggestions ?

\([^)]*\)

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Re: replacement expression

In comp.lang.javas cript message <3fc20dfe-e95f-4272-b5f1-4108644186b5@m3
6g2000hse.googl egroups.com>, Thu, 8 May 2008 11:40:40, apatheticagnost ic
<apatheticagnos tic@gmail.compo sted:

>On May 8, 2:06 pm, "Jon Paal [MSMD]" <Jon nospam Paal @ everywhere dot
>comwrote:

>need some help with a str.replace expression to strip all content between any occurrence of parentheses and also remove parentheses
>...
>>
>str.replace(/\([\w\s]*\)/gi, "");
>>
>any suggestions ?

>
>Looks like it should, although you won't be stripping digits. What's
>the issue?

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The test string subsequently provided contains parenthesised commas; the
RegExp does not accommodate that.

This works on the test data : str.replace(/\([^)]*\)/g, "");
- Electronic media , Paper , Textiles , Furniture

And str.replace(/\s*\([^)]*\)/g, "");
- Electronic media, Paper, Textiles, Furniture

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