Keep Matter between parentheses, delete rest using GREP

[shahidr100]

Hi

I have received a text from a customer (screenshot attached).

I want to keep all the matter between the parentheses intact and delete rest of them.

Also, I want to delete the matter including parentheses marked in blue.

I have written following query:

Find: \(\x{0635}:\h?\d+\)

Change to: nothing

This deletes the parentheses with the matter which is marked in blue.

Then I wrote a second query which selects the text between parentheses (marked in red). How do I keep this intact and delete the rest of the matter?

I tried (*Skip)(*fail) method but I guess I am not very good at it.

This is the query I wrote to select the text marked in red which I want to keep.

Find: (?<=\()[^()]+(?=\))

I then tried another query to delete the matter in black in one go.

F: (\(.+?\))(?:.+)

C: $1

This query does not work as it should. Its leaving much of the black matter unchanged.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse · Accepted solution]

I think you're going deeper into this then you need to. Simply do a Find and Replace for any text that's Black and Replace it with nothing (i.e leave "Find what" and "Change to" blank.

 Do the same for the Blue

[shahidr100]

Yes I have done that already. But I wanted to do it using grep.
Thanks

[shahidr100]

Brad @ Roaring Mouse One more thing which I forgot to tell. I am sorry for that.

The text which I have is all in black. I just wanted to show what I need and what I dont, thats the reason I did color coding. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks once again

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

Ah!  Sorry!  That does make a difference indeed! 🙂