help cleaning up text

[dugindog]

I have a text variable that I want to strip of a section of each line.

below is a sample of the text I have for the variable

Richfield (pop. 34,439)
Robbinsdale (pop. 14,123)
Rochester (pop. 85,806)
Rosemount (pop. 14,619)
Roseville (pop. 33,690)
Sartell (pop. 9,641)
Sauk Rapids (pop. 10,213)

what I am wanting to strip out is the end area the (pop. ... )

if this makes sense I would be greatly appreciative of any help on this area.

thanks

[harmor]

so you want the results to be...?

 Richfield
Robbinsdale
Rochester
Rosemount
Roseville
Sartell
Sauk Rapids 

You would use str_replace

[Weedpacket]

Or [man]strpos[/man] and [man]substr[/man].