How can I remove the text between a set of parentheses and the parentheses themselves in PHP?
Example: ABC (Test1)
I would like it to delete (Test1) and only leave ABC.
$string = "ABC (Test1)";
echo preg_replace("/\([^)]+\)/","",$string); // 'ABC '
preg_replace is a perl-based regular expression replace routine. What this script does is matches all occurrences of a opening parenthesis, followed by any number of characters not a closing parenthesis, and again followed by a closing parenthesis, and then deletes them:
Regular expression breakdown:
/ - opening delimiter (necessary for regular expressions, can be any character that doesn't appear in the regular expression
\( - Match an opening parenthesis
[^)]+ - Match 1 or more character that is not a closing parenthesis
\) - Match a closing parenthesis
/ - Closing delimiter