Re: Regex To remove text between parentheses

This works fairly well. It can also get rid of nested parentheses like this: (begin(next(third))). Though not like (begin(next)third).

s/\([^)]+\)+//g;
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(tye)Re: Regex To remove text between parentheses by tye (Sage) on Jul 10, 2001 at 22:46 UTC
No, it doesn't handle even your first case of nesting correctly. My preference is to use: `s#\([^()]\)##g` and repeat if you need to worry about nested parens: `0 while s#\([^()]\)##g;` I really hate complicated regexes. - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply] [d/l] [select]