How to remove certain part of string

Question

(1) Website Name

(3) Website Name - 08-08-2013 New York City

From the examples above, how would I be able to remove the rounded brackets and the value inside using jQuery or Javascript?

I understand I would be able to get the title from using the code below

var current_title = $(document).attr('title');

possible duplicate of [jQuery remove special characters from string and more](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8979619/jquery-remove-special-characters-from-string-and-more) — PW Kad, Aug 08 '13 at 14:18

Jake Aitchison · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-08T14:08:16.610

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var current_title = $(document).attr('title');

current_title = current_title.replace(/^\(\d+\)\s+/,'');

hope this helps

edited Aug 08 '13 at 14:08

answered Aug 08 '13 at 13:59

Jake Aitchison

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 08 '13 at 13:59

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That's what regular expressions are for. You can try this:

"(3) Website Name - 08-08-2013 New York City".replace(/\(\d+\)/,'')

answered Aug 08 '13 at 13:59

Teneff

What about the whitespaces after the parantheses? – Moritz Roessler Aug 08 '13 at 14:14
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@C5H8NNaO4 it was not mentioned by the OP – Teneff Aug 08 '13 at 14:19
the result is not stored so will be lost. – Jake Aitchison Aug 08 '13 at 14:23

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 08 '13 at 14:49

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EDIT: Now with more than one digit (or any other characters inside the brackets).

Use:

current_title = current_title.substring(current_title.indexOf(')'));

This should return the rest of the string after the closing bracket.

edited Aug 08 '13 at 14:49

Geo

answered Aug 08 '13 at 13:58

EZLearner

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If the number in the brackets goes above single digit this will not work as expected. – Jake Aitchison Aug 08 '13 at 14:00
Correct. A fool's mistake. – EZLearner Aug 08 '13 at 14:01
This will still leave a space in the string before the required text :) – Jake Aitchison Aug 08 '13 at 14:04
The Q never mentioned the space. Who came up with that idea? I'm actually voting up, for I think this solution is way more efficient than RegEx! – Geo Aug 08 '13 at 14:46

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