How would I use regular expressions to remove the contents in parenthesis in a string

Bill_Thompson · July 11th, 2011, 09:46 PM

How would I use regular expressions to remove the contents in parenthesis in a string in C# like this:
"SOMETHING (#2)"

Bill_Thompson · July 11th, 2011, 11:39 PM

By using this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ons.regex.aspx
I have gotten some results like this:
string pattern = @"\(#\d+\)";
Regex rgx = new Regex(pattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
MatchCollection matches = rgx.Matches(interesting_string);
But I do not know what to do with the matches or what to do after this.

Shasur · July 12th, 2011, 12:56 AM

Hi Bill

Matches would find the occurrences of the given pattern. For your 'stripping' you need to use Replace to replace the match with nothing

Code:

string pattern = @"\(#\d+\)";
string interesting_string = "SOMETHING (#2)";
Regex rgx = newRegex(pattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase); 
MatchCollection matches = rgx.Matches(interesting_string);
string removed_String = rgx.Replace(interesting_string, "");

Cheers
Shasur