Question

Can anyone provide a regex for notepad++ for the below search and replace (conversion)

ADD  ( PRIMARY KEY (xxx) ) ;

to

ADD  PRIMARY KEY (xxx) ;

basically, removed a () around primary key expression. the value xxx is different among statements.

If not notepad++, I may also try the regex for vim or any shell script.

thanks a lot.
Babu.

Answer 1

Search for:

ADD  \( PRIMARY KEY \((.+)\) \) ;

Replace with:

ADD  PRIMARY KEY (\1) ;