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I have this regex
((.*?)(\(.*?\))|(.*?))
I would like to remove the | as i think there is a better way of matching this. Here are some example strings that I would like it to match
myString
myString(1234)
if it has brackets I want to capture the contents of the brackets as a separate capture group. It never has to capture both types of string.
As the
(...)part is optional, you can make the sub-regex which matches it optional as well: