Get rid of text in between () in PHP

Question

Say you have a string like this:

This is a string (with parenthesis stuff)

How would you change that to

This is a string

?

Answer 1

Replace it:

preg_replace('/\(.*?\)/', '', $str);

Answer 2

Use a regex.

Replace \([^)]*\) with the empty string.

Note: If there's more than one pair of parenthesis this will replace the innermost one.

Answer 3

try this

  $string = "This is a string (with parenthesis stuff)";
  echo preg_replace("/\([^)]+\)/","",$string); // 'ABC '

or you can do this also

  $str = "This is a string (with parenthesis stuff)";
  $str = trim(preg_replace('/\s*\([^)]*\)/', '', $str));