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I’ve used the following regex to try to remove parentheses and everything within them in a string called name.
name.replaceAll("\\(.*\\)", "");
For some reason, this is leaving name unchanged. What am I doing wrong?
Strings are immutable. You have to do this:
Edit: Also, since the
.*is greedy, it will kill as much as it can. So"(abc)something(def)"will be turned into"".