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If data that is returned in the following way:
Just wondering whether there’s an easy way to remove the year and parentheses from the string e.g. remove (1999)?
Thanks in advance.
As long as nested parenthesis aren’t an issue, you can simply use a regular expression:
subreplaces everything matched by the expression with the given string, in this case an empty string (nothing).\s*include any number of whitespace characters before the open parenthesis\(open parenthesis as a literal.+match one or more of any characters\)close parenthesis as a literal$match end of string – optional, you can leave this out if you want to remove parenthesized text anywhere in the string