C# Regex - Need to remove parentheses

Question

I'm looking for a C# regex for replacement to take this:

HP06B66F (HP Officejet Pro 8600) (redirected 4)

to

HP06B66F (HP Officejet Pro 8600)

I am using the regex below and it gets me to HP06B66F (HP Officejet Pro 8600) ()

(redirected \\\\d*)

I need to get it to remove that last () not just what is in between.

Thanks for the help

Answer 1

Why do you need regex for that? You can do it like this:

string initialString = "HP06B66F (HP Officejet Pro 8600) (redirected 4)";
string wantedString = initialString.Remove(initialString.LastIndexOf("(")).TrimEnd();

Result:

You could also try with any of these, all giving the same result:

string wantedString = initialString.Replace(" (redirected 4)", "");
string wantedString = Regex.Replace(initialString, @"\(redirected \d*\)", "").TrimEnd();

Answer 2

Change your regex to "\\(redirected \\d*\\)" to treat the () as normal characters.

(In C# depending on how you're doing this it might have to be \\\\( and \\\\) because you have to deal with the string's escape characters first)