I am trying to write some code that will look a the contents of a variable and remove “(?) ” if it is in the variable. The “?” could be any number, but I want to remove the parentheses, the content between them, and the space after.
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I am trying to write some code that will look a the contents of a variable and remove “(?) ” if it is in the variable. The “?” could be any number, but I want to remove the parentheses, the content between them, and the space after.
This isn’t really a jQuery issue, but rather a JavaScript issue. Here’s one solution:
This results in
23234, since we matched a(, followed by a digit repeated (\d+), followed by another), followed by an optional space (\s). The second parameter shows that we’re replacing this matched pattern with nothing ('').