Regular expression for removing text with parenthesis

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Take this text for example 泣（な）き出（だ）した, I want to remove the furigana programmatically (ie. 泣き出した). I tried

re.sub(r"\（[^()]*\）", "", '泣（な）き出（だ）した')

but it returns 泣した instead. What is the better regular expression?

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2 Answers

The parentheses in your character class are half-width (半角) instead of full-width (全角) parentheses.

Replacing them will fix your problem:

import re

re.sub(r"\（[^（）]*\）", "", '泣（な）き出（だ）した')

# '泣き出した'
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You should try re.sub(r"\（.*?\）", "", '泣（な）き出（だ）した'), which uses the non-greedy quantifier *?.

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