Using POSIX non-greedy RegEx in Textpad

Question

My Textpad is configed to use POSIX-style RegEx for searches. I am trying to do a non-greedy search for text within parenths, including the parenths, so I am doing:

\(.+?\)

I was hoping that ? would activate a non-greedy search (it does, for example, in Java RegEx) but it did not. I cannot do a non-greedy search because I have sections like:

(prnth_content_1) reg_textA (prnth_content_2) reg_textB (prnth_content_3) reg_textC

and I want my search to stop for each parenthesized match group one-by-one, instead, it goes until the last closed parenth on the line returning

(prnth_content_1) reg_textA (prnth_content_2) reg_textB (prnth_content_3)

Any way I can accomplish this?

well, that's kind of lame of them... thanks anyway. i will move my file to linux and do it in vim... — amphibient, Mar 21 '13 at 15:38

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 21 '13 at 15:38

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Use a character class and search for a "not parenthesis".

e.g.

\([^)]+\)

answered Mar 21 '13 at 15:38

Kenneth K.

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