How to Split Form entries and replace text within a cell - google-apps-script

Question

I have a form that serves as an application to receive volunteer teams for my NGO. What I want to do is create a script that sends an email to the registrar upon someone completing the form. That's the easy part which I know how to do.
I want to include in that "email notification" a few key answers from some questions for the registrar to see. This I also know how to accomplish.
here is my current code that works:
function Team_ApplicationMailer(e) {
var recipient = "myemail#gmail.com";
var timestamp = e.values[0];
var name = e.values[3];
var country = e.values[1]
var subject = e.values[1]+' wants to Volunteer!' ;
var startdate = e.values[12];
var enddate = e.values[13]
var hyperlink = "mylink.com"
htmlBody = '<u><strong>'+name+'</u></strong> from: <u><strong>'+country+'</strong></u>just completed the Teams Application Form for these dates: <u><strong>'+startdate+' to '+enddate+'</u></strong><br><br>Form completed on: <u><strong>'+timestamp+'</u></strong><br><br>View the Form: Click Here';
MailApp.sendEmail(recipient, subject, htmlBody, {htmlBody:htmlBody});
}
Here's the tricky part I want to add: I want to also add data found in e.values[19] and e.values[20], but these values are from either a multiple choice (e.values[19]) or checkbox (e.values[20]) and I need the values both simplified—i.e. some text deleted—and possibly split when emailed.
The two questions are basically identical. e.values[19] is "What do you want to do: 1st Priority" with some multiple-choice options. and e.values[20] is "What else do you want to do" with some checkbox options. Both questions have the same 7 choices and each choice has a long description (hence the need to shorten)
Basically I want e.values[19] which value looks like this:
optionX: (Long Description)
to look like this in the email:
What do you want to do: optionX.
I don't want the long description of the option in the "()" to be included.
For e.values[20] I want the values to look like this in the email:
What else do you want to do: optionA, optionB, optionC
INSTEAD of This:
optionA: (Long Description),optionB: (Long Description),optionC: (Long Description)
I've looked into the .replace and .split functions but don't know how to make them work together, especially for the checkbox option.
Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

I wrote a function for this. It just removes anything inside parentheses (). This seems to be what you're looking for.
var s = e.values[19];
s = s.replace(/\([^)]*\)/g,"");
If you have parentheses inside parentheses, let me know, and I will have to make a quick edit.
So what's happening here.
It's looking for a (.
It's looking for as many characters as it can while matching a ) at the end. This is without having a ) inside.
If you had allowed a ) inside, it would match optionA:(...), optionB: (...), optionC: (...). We want to avoid this, so we do not allow ) inside. That's what [^)] means.
The g flag means to match "globally", or everywhere in the string.