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

I'm using this function:

public static String remove_parenthesis(String input_string, String parenthesis_symbol){
    // removing parenthesis and everything inside them, works for (),[] and {}
    if(parenthesis_symbol.contains("[]")){
        return input_string.replaceAll("\\s*\\[[^\\]]*\\]\\s*", " ");
    }else if(parenthesis_symbol.contains("{}")){
        return input_string.replaceAll("\\s*\\{[^\\}]*\\}\\s*", " ");
    }else{
        return input_string.replaceAll("\\s*\\([^\\)]*\\)\\s*", " ");
    }
}

You can call it like this:

remove_parenthesis(g, "[]");
remove_parenthesis(g, "{}");
remove_parenthesis(g, "()");