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364.Regular expression replace -- How to batch remove all the text that enclosed by a pair of parenthesis?

User: editor -- 2009-12-11 << 363 365 >>

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Description:

I have some text documentations that contains some unnecessary information that enclosed by a pair of parenthesis, the content are not fixed, how to batch remove all these parenthesis enclosed text?

Input Sample:

This is to test line 1(the 1st line)
This is to test line 2(the 2nd line)

Output Sample:

This is to test line 1
This is to test line 2

Answer:

Hint: You need to Download and install "Replace Pioneer" on windows platform to finish following steps.

1. press ctrl-o and open source text file
2. press ctrl-h to open "replace" dialog
fill in 'Search for Pattern' like:

fill nothing in 'Replace with Pattern'
3. click 'Replace', done!

Note: \(.*?\) is a format of regular expression.

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