quickest way to remove text between paranthesis ?

[Alex Tweedly]

jbv wrote:

>Hi list,
>
>I have a large variable (about 200 lines with 30 items
>in each) and I need to remove parts of some items
>(actually parts between paranthesis)...
>Is there a quick way to do that, with only 1 command
>line for instance ? Using regEx perhaps ?
>  
>
Please test this thoroughly - it does what I *think* you want  ...

> on mouseUp
>   put URL "file:d:/Our Documents/Alex/RunRev/j.txt" into t
>   put replaceText(t, "\(.*\)", "<>")  into field "lockedField"
> end mouseUp
>

note that (for testing purposes) I replace the parenthesized section 
with a "<>" - you probably want to change that to
  put replaceText(t, "\(.*\)", "")  into wherever

Currently it changes

> this (text)
> in the (file) here.

to

> this <>
> in the <> here.




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