Modifying titles: Removing last occurence of content in brackets

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Hi everyone,

I've labeled a huge number of titles adding a suffix to the very right side of the title in the form of: TITLE (xyzw 1) or TITLE (abcd 2) etc.

Is there a method/regular expression to getting rid of all the suffixs between brackets in order to leave the title only?

Thanks in advance!
Ian

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If you search for "remove part of title" you get a lot of already existing answers for your question.

Which ones have you tried already? What exactly doesn't work for which expression?

One of the working expressions could be:
$regexp(%TITLE%, \(.*\)$,)
This would search for a space, an opening bracket, any character until a closing bracket - and this has to be at the end - to leave brackets and text between brackets before the end untouched, like "My (super) text and other blabla"
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Thank you for the quick reaction!

I've found a suggestion by Florian about my problem:

Guess value
Source: %title%
Format string: %title% (%dummy%)

It works fine, but I should now better specify my requirements.
Some titles sound like "Chasing pavements (Live) (xyzw 1)" or "Tango guapo (20sec. ouverture) (abcd 1)" and I would like to remove only the last suffix, i.e. after the adjustment the titles should be "Chasing pavements (Live)" or "Tango guapo (20sec. ouverture)".

Thank you for your help.
Ian

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$regexp(%TITLE%,' \(([^)]*)\)[^(]*$',)
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Examples and explanation on regex101

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Super!

Thank you very very much!
Ian