Hi, I'm not very good with regular expressions, so if anyone can help me... I have simply to extract the first word from a text, so it must stop on the first whitespace I think. Example: apple (house) -> apple computer tree city -> computer Suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Thank-you, your answer helps a lot. My problem is the following: if a string has a left bracket, then keep everything before the bracket, else keep the whole string. Example: text1 text2 (text_to_discard) ...