I’m confused as to what this regex does:
preg_replace('/^\s*\((.+)\)\s*$/', '$1', $part);
Can someone give me a gist of what it does?
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It finds lines that have a set of parens with whitespace optionally before and after, and removes the parens and whitespace. E.g.,
becomes