Regexp to delete text between parens

[SirHammer1]

Hello Awk Masters!
I've been trying in vain for hours to develop a regexp for use in gsub or sub that will delete all text between parens on a given line, I'd like the parens to go also.

For example:
My knee hurts ( really bad )

Should come out
My knee hurts

In addition, there is another place in my file where I'd like to take the words in parens and put them into variables.

Can anyone please help?
Thanks for the assistance!
SirHammer1

 

[CaKiwi]

I'm ashamed to say I don't know how to search for a ( in awk. I hope someone else responds to let us know. Here's a program which should do what you want including saving the text within parens into a variable.

{
s1 = $0
s2 = ""
ix1 = index(s1,"(&quot
if (ix1 > 0) {
ix2 = index(substr(s1,ix),&quot&quot
if (ix2 > 0) {
s2 = substr(s1,ix1,ix2)
s1 = substr(s1,1,ix1-1) substr(s1,ix1+ix2)
}
}
print s1
if (s2 != "&quot print s2
}

Hope this helps

CaKiwi

 

[CaKiwi]

Ok, ok I figured out the regular expression for parentheses

{
gsub("[(].*[)]","&quot
print
}

Hope this helps.

CaKiwi

 

[SirHammer1]

Thanks, worked like a champ! The other will come in handy as well.