Question

Example:

a) asdf ghjk (qwer . - tzui
b) asdf ghjk (qwer . - tzui)
c) asdf ghjk (qwer . - tzui) opyx

What I want is to match (qwer . - tzui in a and (qwer . - tzui) in b and c. So if an ending bracket exists, it should only match until that, otherwise until the end.

I’m not really a regex expert so I could only come up with \(.*\) for the second and third case which is quite trivial.

Answer 1

Try this

\([^)\n\r]*\)?

See it here online on Regexr

The ? makes the previous expression optional, that means the closing bracket is now optional.

[^)\n\r] replaces your . to have a non greedy matching and means match every character but )\n\r. I added \n\r to avoid matching accross rows, if that is now problem you can remove them and leave only [^)]