Remove everything in parentheses java using regex

Question

I\'ve used the following regex to try to remove parentheses and everything within them in a string called name.

name.replaceAll(\"\\\\(.*\\\\)\"         


        

Answer 1

Strings are immutable. You have to do this:

name = name.replaceAll("\\(.*\\)", "");

Edit: Also, since the .* is greedy, it will kill as much as it can. So "(abc)something(def)" will be turned into "".