JavaScript/regex: Remove text between parentheses

Question

Would it be possible to change

Hello, this is Mike (example)

to

Hello, this is Mike

using JavaScript with

Answer 1

Try / \([\s\S]*?\)/g

Where

(space) matches the character (space) literally

\( matches the character ( literally

[\s\S] matches any character (\s matches any whitespace character and \S matches any non-whitespace character)

*? matches between zero and unlimited times

\) matches the character ) literally

g matches globally

Code Example:

var str = "Hello, this is Mike (example)";
str = str.replace(/ \([\s\S]*?\)/g, '');
console.log(str);

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