Remove word from substring

Question

I've got a list of links that looks like this

• Item 1
• Item 2 (foo)
• Item 3

How do I get jQuery to remove the string " (foo)" from the link text?

Answer 1

another alternative

$('li:nth-child(2)').replaceWith('<li>Item 2</li>');

Answer 2

$('a:contains(foo)').text(function(_, currentText){
   return currentText.replace('foo', '');
});

http://jsfiddle.net/EgHkr/