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I have a string:
HLN (Formerly Headline News)
I want to remove everything inside the parens and the parens themselves, leaving only:
HLN
I’ve tried to do this with a regex, but my difficulty is with this pattern:
"(.+?)"
When I use it, it always gives me a PatternSyntaxException. How can I fix my regex?
Because parentheses are special characters in regexps you need to escape them to match them explicitly.
For example: