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Parsing with Regex and ( in data

TravisJWhite
7 - Meteor

Hello All,

 

I'm back with another Regex issue.  This time I need to figure out how to parse data out from between ( & ).  Parentheses seem to be special characters in Regex parsing and I cannot for the life of me construct a statement that will allow for extraction of data within them.

 

Example data: words words words words (important data)

 

 

Could someone please lay some knowledge on this hapless newbie?

 

Cheers

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jdunkerley79
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

You need to escape out the (,) with a \. So using a REGEX tool in parse the regular expression is:

 

\((.*)\)

 

The part between the brackets will be parsed into a new field.

TravisJWhite
7 - Meteor

Thank you so much - worked like a charm!

 

Cheers!

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