matching round braces

[Nicholas Jordan]

given:
(39)63245986
(40)102334155
(41)165580141
(42)267914296
(43)433494437
(44)701408733
(45)1134903170
(46)1836311903
(47)2971215073
(48)4807526976
(49)7778742049
(50)12586269025

I was trying to remove the (\d+?) and could not get anything to work.
Beginner at regular expressions, this was in the find/replace - some of the stuff I wrote worked ~ some didn't.

[Bob Hansen]

What do you mean by this:
I was trying to remove the (\d+?)

You have given a sample of beginning data, what should the result look like?

Also provide a sample of what you are using for Search and Replace values so that we can help edit it for you.

[Bob Hansen]

Aha! I think I answered my own question.

the (\d+?) is what you are using for the Search value, digits within parantheses...... Try this for any number of digits between ( )...

Search for: ^\([0-9]*\)
Replace with: nothing

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[Nicholas Jordan]

I tried some other things with tp find/replace using re's ~ I eventually figured out that the command set for tp/re's is not that of traditional nfa engines discusses in O'Reilly's Mastering Regular Expressions.

I will try character classes, that short list was supposed to be fibonacci for a packing problem ( fixed size limit / multiple datasamples / multiple packing units ) The book I am reading gives algorithm for generating these on the fly in method entry. ( Sedgewick - which is a remarkably readable workup on the matter )

message edit - I just tried it on a find in files and it found a lot of stuff ~ the book I read stated to use +? for most searches calling it lazy : but that construct selected the whole line. One of the cases went degenerate.