javascript regular expression to remove trailing numbers in parenthesis

Question

How can I replace/append something (22) string to something, using some kind of expression matching something is not a constant its always different but the part (integer) is always the same. cheers

EDIT

I see that this something is a bit confusing(for me as well). Here is what I mean. I have a string - a word . Which contains alpha expression(a word, any word) one single space opening and closing paranthesis and inside of the an intiger. Now I'd like to replace blank space, paranthesis and integer inside to replace with nothing and leave just the alpha part of the string.

Ex:

Java (77)
Javascript (22)
Car (11)
Carpet (15)

After regex it should look like this :

Java
Javascript
Car
Carpet

Note, the regex is performed on each word seperatly, I just wrote couple of examples to make things more clear to read and understand. Thank you

You should better explain the expected format of something. For example "something is single alphanumeric word", or "something is a one or at most two words starting with a digit". — Andrea Zilio
– Andrea Zilio, Commented Jan 23, 2010 at 13:49
The way your question is phrased: s = "something"; s = s + "something (22)" — Zano
– Zano, Commented Jan 23, 2010 at 13:54
What Andrea said. Now an answer like: "by performing some regex or other string manipulation" would be as good as an answer as the question is. :) — Bart Kiers
– Bart Kiers, Commented Jan 23, 2010 at 13:55

Andrea Zilio · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-23 14:11:04Z

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Here it is:

var text = "Java (77) Javascript (22) Car (11) Carpet (15)";
text.replace(/(\w+) \(\d+\)/g,"$1");   // returns "Java Javascript Car Carpet"

answered Jan 23, 2010 at 14:11

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user187291 · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-07 01:36:22Z

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Assuming something as \w -> A-Za-z0-9_, this will convert something (22) to something

yourstring=yourstring.replace(/(\w+)\s*\(\d+\)/g,"$1")

or just remove numbers in brackets

yourstring=yourstring.replace(/\s*\(\d+\)/g, "")

edited Oct 7, 2011 at 1:36

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answered Jan 23, 2010 at 13:51

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Gandalf StormCrow Over a year ago

ummm as I can read .. you assume that my string starts with s, I've edited the question to make my question more undrestandable(I hope).tnx

YOU Over a year ago

no, its not only for string starts with s, \s is whitespace which include space not the char "s"

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