How to remove text from a string

[Dellji]

I can't get this code to work


var NickName = "Hello, this is Mike (example) xx "

var NoNickName = "didn't work"
NoNickname = NickName.replace(/ *\([^)]*\) */g, "");

AkelPad.MessageBox(0, NoNickName + " " + NickName, "Remove NickNames", 64 /*MB_ICONINFORMATION*/);

// Result should be
// "Hello, this is Mike"

// Here, we are using regular expression / *\([^)]*\) */g that finds the characters inside brackets (in this case small round brackets) and replace them with empty string.

[KDJ]

...
var NoNickName = "didn't work"
NoNickname = NickName.replace(/ *\([^)]*\) */g, "");
...

These are two different variables.

[Dellji]

Your revised code didn't work either.

Also sorry for not giving a clearer example

So here is the proper example:
var NickName = "Hello, this is Michael (Mike) from Ohio"

The result should be

Hello, this is Michael from Ohio

Only the parenthesis “()” and “Mike” should be removed and the two substrings concatenated

The code works in javascript in browser

[YuS]

The result should be

Hello, this is Michael from Ohio

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NickName = "Hello, this is Michael (Mike) from Ohio"
NoNickName = NickName.replace(/ *\([^)]*\) */g," ")
WScript.Echo(NoNickName)

[Dellji]

The result should be

Hello, this is Michael from Ohio

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NickName = "Hello, this is Michael (Mike) from Ohio"
NoNickName = NickName.replace(/ *\([^)]*\) */g," ")
WScript.Echo(NoNickName)

Thanks that worked