match everything until parenthesis

Question

Given a string str = "Senior Software Engineer (mountain view)"

How can I match everything until I hit the first parenthesis, giving me back "Senior Software Engineer"

Answer 1

you would use ^[^\(]+ to match that and then trim it to remove the trailing space

Answer 2

^[^\(]*

[^\(] is a character class, which matches everything except for (, and * is a greedy match, which matches the class as many times as possible. The ^ at the beginning matches from the beginning of the string.