How do I replace the closing bracket also?

Question

I have a couple of sentences in parentheses in a couple of files in a folder and I need to find and remove the opening bracket and replace the closing bracket of every parenthesis with a hyphen/dash (-). I don't know if Notepad++ is the best to use for this but I opened one of those files with Notepad++, selected the Regular Expression mode and put this in the "Find" field:-

(<!--.*?-->|<style[\S\s\n]*?</style>|<script[\S\s\n]*?</script>|rgb\(\d+,\x20\d+,\x20\d+\))(*SKIP)(*F)|\((.+?\))\s*again

and

1ドル - again

in the Replace in files field to replace (Malé) again with Malé - again but when I hit Replace, the closing bracket is not removed. Please give me the correct Regular Expression to replace the parentheses. This is part of one of the files that can be used as a sample for testing the above RegEx:-

<!-- (Malé) -->
<p>(Mal&eacute;) again</p>
<p style="font-family: &quot;verdana&quot;; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mal&eacute; again</p>
<style>
code {
 font-family: &quot;verdana&quot;;
 font-size: 18px;
 color: black;
 font-weight: bold !important;
 line-height: 1.6 !important;
 }
@media (min-width: 1281px) {
code {
 font: 24px "verdana" bold !important;
 }
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
 new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en'}, 'google_translate_element');
}
</script>

• DuesserBaest: It is because you capture the closing parenthesis into group 1 here ... \((.+?\))\s*again. Fix it by moving it out like so: ... \((.+?)\)\s*again
• Wiktor Stribiżew: Use (?:<!--.*?-->|<style(?s:.*?)</style>|<script(?s:.*?)</script>|rgb\(\d+, \d+, \d+\))(*SKIP)(*F)|\(([^()]*)\)\s*again. See demo.
• Michał Turczyn: If those are HTML files, why not use HTML parser?
• user30745941: @MichałTurczyn Please let me know which HTML parser to use in this case and how to use it.

Answer 1

Goal

Removing the opening bracket and replacing the closing bracket with -

Find

(?:<!--.*?-->|<style(?s:.*?)</style>|<script(?s:.*?)</script>|rgb\(\d+,\x20\d+,\x20\d+\))(*SKIP)(*F)|\(([^()]*)\)\s*again

Replace

1ドル - again

Input

<!-- (Malé) -->
<p>(Mal&eacute;) again</p>
<p style="font-family: &quot;verdana&quot;; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mal&eacute; again</p>
<style>
code {
 font-family: &quot;verdana&quot;;
 font-size: 18px;
 color: black;
 font-weight: bold !important;
 line-height: 1.6 !important;
 }
@media (min-width: 1281px) {
code {
 font: 24px "verdana" bold !important;
 }
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
 new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en'}, 'google_translate_element');
}
</script>

Output

<!-- (Malé) -->
<p>Mal&eacute; - again</p>
<p style="font-family: &quot;verdana&quot;; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mal&eacute; again</p>
<style>
code {
 font-family: &quot;verdana&quot;;
 font-size: 18px;
 color: black;
 font-weight: bold !important;
 line-height: 1.6 !important;
 }
@media (min-width: 1281px) {
code {
 font: 24px "verdana" bold !important;
 }
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
 new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en'}, 'google_translate_element');
}
</script>

Answer 2

Goal

Removing open bracket and replace close bracket with -.

Find

(\()((.*?\r?\n)*?.*?)(\))

Replace

2ドル -

Explanations

• (\() : the first group matches the open braket
• ((.*?\r?\n)*?.*?) : The second and third groups match the characters between the open and closed bracket
• (\)) : the fourth group matches the close braket

Input

<!-- (Male) -->
<p>(Mal&emacr;) again</p>
<p style="font-family: &quot;verdana&quot;; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mal&emacr; again</p>
<style>
code {
 font-family: &quot;verdana&quot;;
 font-size: 18px;
 color: black;
 font-weight: bold !important;
 line-height: 1.6 !important;
 }
@media (min-width: 1281px) {
code {
 font: 24px "verdana" bold !important;
 }
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
 new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en'}, 'google_translate_element');
}
</script>

Output

<!-- Male - -->
<p>Mal&emacr; - again</p>
<p style="font-family: &quot;verdana&quot;; font-size: 18px; color: rgb0, 0, 0 -;">Mal&emacr; again</p>
<style>
code {
 font-family: &quot;verdana&quot;;
 font-size: 18px;
 color: black;
 font-weight: bold !important;
 line-height: 1.6 !important;
 }
@media min-width: 1281px - {
code {
 font: 24px "verdana" bold !important;
 }
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function googleTranslateElementInit - {
 new google.translate.TranslateElement{pageLanguage: 'en'}, 'google_translate_element' -;
}
</script>

Limit

Nested parentheses such as (text(otherText)) are only partially processed.

• Poul Bak: This makes googleTranslateElementInit invalid javascript.

Answer 3

I recommend not doing what youre attempting using that sentence formula there. and obtaining the information attempted to be obtained with the corrections if accurately working

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