I'm working on a project and I want to remove text between two parentheses in a string. Example:
std::string str = "I want to remove (this)."
How would I go about doing that? I've searched google and stackoverflow an haven't found anything.
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Parts of one approach: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/erase/ , http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/find/ – user2864740 Aug 11 '15 at 21:48
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2What about nested parentheses, multiple parentheses, ... ? Basically this is a simple search. – Daniel Jour Aug 11 '15 at 21:49
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1You can use `std::regex`, but that may depend on your real use case. – πάντα ῥεῖ Aug 11 '15 at 21:53
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I'd use a regular expression for that. Check out the link I provided. As for the expression to use the following expression
(\()(?:[^\)\\]*(?:\\.)?)*\)
That guy worked for me.
Conditionally replace regex matches in string
- Do not get regular and common expressions confused. This is not like the more common expression of
:-)or:-Oor>:(All-though effective These expressions are mutually exclusive expressions that not many languages understand but are more commonly used.
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What happend here if the value is the following: std::string str = "I want to remove (this (one))." and I would like to have as a result "I want to remove " – ypriverol Sep 04 '17 at 19:50