I would do it this way because i'm lazy:
-replace " ?\(.*?\) ?"
PS > "(ywfew) Jessica (Yvs)" -replace " ?\(.*?\) ?"
Jessica
PS > "(ywfew)Jessica (Yvs)" -replace " ?\(.*?\) ?"
Jessica
PS > "Jessica (Yvs)" -replace " ?\(.*?\) ?"
Jessica
Thanks,
Devin Rich
Systems Administrator
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Orlebeck, Geoffrey <
geoffrey.orleb...@montagehealth.org> wrote:
> I’m working on a script that gets some data fed into it. Some of the
> fields have two names, one wrapped in (). Example: “Jessica (Yvonne)”. I am
> trying to remove everything within the (), but I’m not sure how. I’ve tried
> several regex expressions, and I’m able to remove the (), but not the
> content within them. Essentially I’d like to turn “Jessica (Yvonne)” into
> “Jessica” (even if there is whitespace after ‘Jessica’).
>
>
>
> I tried several suggestions I saw online, escaping the “(“ and “)”, or
> using $regex = [regex]::Escape('()'), but I’m not sure how to basically
> say “Find ‘(‘ and remove everything until ‘)’ [including the parenthesis].
>
>
>
> Any helpful tips or links where people are doing this? I tried doing array
> matches, removing the () and then selecting only the first position, but
> then discovered some of the fields have the parenthesis first (e.g.
> “(Yvonne) Jessica”.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
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