Remove text (& brackets) from a string with regex

Question

It\'s easy when you understand...unfortunately, I don\'t! I will deeply appreciate you if you can guide me to the answer, thanks.

I want to capture a string, using just

Answer 1

Your Regexp would look something like that. The acutal Syntax depends on your programming language / tool.

First you need to match the <td ..> part. Then you capute everything upto (. then to be sure match everything in brackets followed by </td>.

/<td[^>].*>\([^(]*\)(.*)</td>/

You should read the Book: Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl.

Answer 2

Okay, so remove the HTML first, then do something like this to remove the (...) part:

\s+\(.*?\)

If you know the (...) part is the very last thing in the string (i.e. there's nothing after it), you can use this to check that it's at the end, too:

\s+\(.*?\)$

Just use a Regex find and replace function, find the expression above, and replace with nothing.