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How to replace a parentheses at the start of a line in textpad


I know that the character ^ finds a character at the start of a line, but I need to delete a left parentheses at the start of many lines. When I try to do a replace, I receive the following error:

Unmatched marking parenthesis ( or \(. The error occurred while parsing the regular expression: '^(>>>HERE>>>'.

What is the correct syntax when searching for the character ( at the start of a line?


Solution

  • You need to escape the parenthesis with a slash, \(