Escaping the open & closed parenthesis characters

Question

I am close to finishing a script that would find -- at the end of a graf -- some text in parenthesis and dump it at the top of the graf.

However, in the event there is text in parenthesis in the middle of the graf, I am having trouble with a Negative Lookahead. I can't seem to have GREP leap past "(sample text in parenthesis)" in the middle of the graf.

Example Problem:

Here is the example text of what I want to accomplish. Notice that it has (sample text in parenthesis) in the middle of the graf. It also has text at the end of the graf in parens that I want to capture. (xxxxx/xxxxx xxxxxx)

Example Solution:

xxxxx/xxxxx xxxxxx

Here is the example text of what I want to accomplish. Notice that it has (sample text in parenthesis) in the middle of the graf. It also has text at the end of the graf in parens that I want to capture.

Vamitul · Accepted Answer

if the closing parenthesis is the last thing in your paragraph you can use ($[^(]+?$)$

Rocket95 · Answer

Looking at a prior post, here's what my best attempt is so far: (?<=$.+$)And this doesn't do anything.

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