I am using Rubular for this. I have the following string:
summary = "Hi world. Hi world. Hi world. Hi world. Hi world. Hi world. Hi world. Hi world (this is here). Hi world Hi world (wow)."
I'm trying to remove all parentheses from the string with the following:
summary.gsub!(/\([^()]*\)/,"")
The problem is this is not grabbing the space, so it results as follows:
"Hi world. Hi world. Hi world. Hi world. Hi world. Hi world. Hi world. Hi world . Hi world Hi world ."
Notice the undesired space before the period. How can I update the regex to remove the extra space that is being left over when I remove the parentheses?
It's really just a minor modification to make it capture the spaces, too, if there are any:
summary.gsub!(/\s*\([^\)]*\)/, '')
That will only capture leading spaces. If you want leading and trailing:
summary.gsub!(/\s*\([^\)]*\)\s*/, '')