[olug] Character Removal

[Luke -Jr]

On Thursday 18 October 2007, George Neill wrote:
> On 10/18/07, stan at srcproductions.com <stan at srcproductions.com> wrote:
> > I'd like to remove all characters between a '(' and the second ')'. I
> > tried command lines like:
>
> gneill at vmware ]$ echo "this (is what 123 ) a (simple) test" | perl -pe
> 's/(?<=\()[[:alnum:][:space:]]+//g;'
> this () a () test

perl -pe 's,\([^)]+,(,g'