To get string from selected text in javascript?

Question

I am using dropdown list to get the selected text value here is my code

var priceValue = $("#ddlprice option:selected").text();

and i am getting value like Basic Cotton Ultra ($20.05)

I just want Basic Cotton Ultra from the value so how can i extract this.

Answer 1

Just use Regular expression to remove all the brackets and tex inside like bellow snippet :

 var result = "Basic Cotton Ultra ($20.05)".replace(/ *\\([^)]*\\) */g, ""); alert(result); console.log(result) 

Answer 2

just split it before '(' and you will get the output..

var pricevalue = "Basic Cotton Ultra ($20.05)";
pricevalue = pricevalue.split('(')[0].trim();
//output will be "Basic Cotton Ultr