Extracting a string

Hello
I have a list with content
Joe DOH (JD:45)
Chris Jones (CJ:47)
Angela K. Macon (AKM:38)
How to recover for each item only the name ?, ignoring what is in the brackets.
Joe DOH
Chris Jones
Angela K. Macon
Thanks

Assuming that the name doesn't contain any paranthesis you could use the IndexOf method and the Substring method like this:
string text = "Joe DOH (JD:45)";
int index = text.IndexOf(" (");
if(index != -1) {
string name = text.Substring(0, index);
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Hi,
I need to know how can i extract sub strings from a main
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i want to split it into like this:
sub_main_1 variable---------> "2087"
sub_main_2 variable---------> "5E2SE"
sub_main_2 variable---------> "19"
sub_main_2 variable---------> "JG7BC"
I did the same in flash by using Split and arrays, like this:
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You do a similar thing in Director using the itemDelimiter,
which is a
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_player.itemDelimiter = "-"
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itemList = []
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Hi Everyone,
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