A script to remove anything between ()?

[blizzman24]

I have a list and some of the listing have parentheses with words in between them. I want to remove the parentheses and the words in between. Anyone know a simple script for that?

[baileylo]

Not quite sure what you mean by list but here's on idea

Passing just the individual item in the list
function deleteps(list){
if($list[0] == '(' )
return '';
return $list;
}

[blizzman24]

Well I enter a list of words in a html form and it passes it to a php page which processes it.

apple1
apple2 (grass)
apple3 (water)
apple4

I want it to remove (grass) and (water) parentheses too and leave...

apple1
apple2
apple3
apple4

[baileylo]

Yeah, so how is it stored:
$val1 = $_POST['apple1'];
...
$val4 = $_POST['apple4'];
if this is the case
$val4 = deleteps($_POST['apple4']);

function deleteps(list){
for($i = 0; $i < count($list); $i++)
if($list[$i] == '(' )
return substr($list, 0, $i-1);
return $list;
}

or if its stored in array

for($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++){
$array[$i] = deleteps($array[$i]);
}

[byron3@earthlink]

$list_r = explode( "\n", $list );
foreach( $list_r as $item ) {
    $item = str_replace( "(*)", "", $item );
}
$list = implode( "\n", $list_r ); 

I think the wildcard will work, if not let me know I have another trick using substr_replace() thats just a little longer.

[logic_earth]

<?php
 
$list = array('apple1', 'apple2 (grass)', 'apple3 (water)', 'apple4');
$list = preg_replace('/\\s+\\([^\\(]+\\)/i', '', $list);

Also removes the sapce before "("

[logic_earth]

Actually you don't even need to put the list into an array.

<?php
 
$list = 'apple1
apple2 (grass)
apple3 (water)
apple4';
 
$list = "apple1\napple2 (grass)\napple3 (water)\napple4";
 
$list = preg_replace('/\\s+\\([^\\(]+\\)/i', '', $list);