how to delete text within parentheses

[notannhavoc]

I need to delete text within  and including the parenthesis in a generated ToC. I've tried  usign GREP but  it seems I cannot delete text - is that correct. Although I have been able to delete text one letter at a time

followign example: SIDE-ANGLE UTTHITA PARSVAKONASANA) [tab] 56 - I need to delete teh (UTTHITA PARSVAKONASANA) but leave the tab character and the page number so I cannot simple delete to end of line. I ahave tried various GREP expressions such as:

\(\d* which deletes only teh first (

\(.* which deletes everythign  to teh end of teh line [includign tab and page number]

If I could only capture teh text - I could change it's color by applying a style and then replace everytihgn in that color

[Jean-Claude Tremblay · Accepted solution]

Try this to delete only the parenthesis...

Find: \((.+?)\)

Change: $1

Or this to delete the parenthesis and the text:

Find: \(.+?\)

Change: leave empty

[notannhavoc]

sorry -  teh 2nd part of the answer worked like a charm - much easier than my solution

[Barb Binder]

I need to delete text within and including the parenthesis

In that case, use the beginning of Jean-Claude's answer to find the parentheses and the text inside, but replace with nothing (leave the change field blank).

~Barb

[notannhavoc]

I tried that - it did not change anything  - however I did find a  long workaround using combo of text and GREP

Text

1. repalced all (  with line break and (  "^n( "

2. repalced all ) with ) and end of paragraph  ")^p"

GREP

3.   \(.*    &  left change to blank

Text

4. repalce all linebreaks and end of paragraph with nothing [left change blank]   "^n^p"