php - Print only part of values or to a specific character -

i have in mysql table column "class" , in items :

• ds1 (1 koera toukerattavedu al.14 a.)
• dck1 (koerakross, lapsed 6-9)
• dbw (jalgrattavedu, naised al.16 a.)
• dr4 (3-4 koera käruvedu, al.16 a.)
• dr6 (4-6 koera käruvedu al. 16 a.)
• dck2 (koerakross, lapsed10-13 a.) etc..

with print '<td>' .$row["klass"].'</td>'; prints whole text. can print somehow until "(" ?

to display :

• ds1
• dck1
• dbw
• etc...

you use preg_replace remove entire paranthesis :

function removeparanthesis($text) {     return preg_replace('/\s*\([^)]*\)/', '', $text); }  print '<td>'.removeparanthesis($row["klass"]).'</td>'; 

would give desired output.