How to Remove Alternate/Extra Text (Text within Parenthesis) using VB.NET/C#

How to Remove Text within Brackets/ Braces using VB.NET/C#

Regular expressions come handy when we have this kind of requirement. Regex.Replace method can be used remove the unwanted text

        private static void RemoveTextWithinParens()

        {

            string pattern = @"\([^\(\)]+\)";

            string interesting_string = "SOMETHING (#2) and some more rhing (#3 inside braces)";

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

            MatchCollection matches = rgx.Matches(interesting_string);

            string removed_String = rgx.Replace(interesting_string, "");

        }