I have a regular expression (regex) question...

[complete]

I have a regular expression (regex) question...

How would I use regular expressions to remove the contents in parenthesis in a string in C# like this:

"SOMETHING (#2)"

The part of the string I want to remove always appears within paranthesis and they are always # followed by some number. The rest of the string needs to be left alone.

[kvprajapati]

Patterns:

string pattern1 = @"\(.*w*\)";
string pattern2= @"\(#\w+\)";

[complete]

According to:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.regex.aspx

I have gotten some results like this:

string pattern = @"\(#\d+\)";

Regex rgx = new Regex(pattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

MatchCollection matches = rgx.Matches(interesting_string);

But I do not know what to do with the matches or what to do after this.

[Momerath]

use Regex.Replace, as in

string newstring = rgx.Replace(oldstring, String.Empty);

[kvprajapati]

@complete, have a look at this thread.