Remove everything in parentheses java using regex

As mentionend by by Jelvis, ".*" selects everything and converts "(ab) ok (cd)" to ""

The version below works in these cases "(ab) ok (cd)" -> "ok", by selecting everything except the closing parenthesis and removing the whitespaces.

test = test.replaceAll("\\s*\\([^\\)]*\\)\\s*", " ");

Strings are immutable. You have to do this:

name = name.replaceAll("\\(.*\\)", "");

Edit: Also, since the .* is greedy, it will kill as much as it can. So "(abc)something(def)" will be turned into "".