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find between brackets

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
May 29, 2017
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FIND

\(([^()]|(?R))*\)

CHANGE

italic (char style)

gives

(sunt quaepta (tiorepta perovit aliquibus) dem)

The grep above finds what is between brackets, but I want it to find the whole text between the exterior brackets, but without the brackets.

getting it so:

(sunt quaepta (tiorepta perovit aliquibus) dem)

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Correct answer Obi-wan Kenobi

Hi,

Jongware's way works only in one case: double-parenthesis between parenthesis.

Dhafir's one only catches the text not the parenthesis.

This one uses the Grep recursive code Gert indicates us [ ]. To do what he wants to get [in all situations], just play 2 regex [+ 3rd optional]:

(^/)

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dhafirp16891848

Inspiring

Hi gert verrept,

Try this by one click:

(?<=\))[^\(]+?(?=\))|(?<=\()[^\(]+?(?=\))|(?<=\()[^\(]+?(?=\()

Jongware

Community Expert

This will do the job, but extremely literally: it will only and exclusively match the outer parenthesized phrase (sans parens) when there is a single parenthesized expression within.

(?<=\()[^()\r]*\([^()\r]*\)[^()\r]*(?=\))

Close enough? I don't think it can be adjusted to account for "either/or". In that case you're probably better off just replacing all of the text with italics, and then selectively remove it from just the outermost parentheses.

Obi-wan KenobiCorrect answer

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Hi,

Jongware's way works only in one case: double-parenthesis between parenthesis.

Dhafir's one only catches the text not the parenthesis.

This one uses the Grep recursive code Gert indicates us [ ]. To do what he wants to get [in all situations], just play 2 regex [+ 3rd optional]:

(^/)

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