Find and replace everything between and including parentheses

[Laura Malt Schneiderman]

I’m having some trouble with find and replace. I want to find and replace everything between and including parentheses. I have many instances of dollar amounts in between parentheses that I want to get rid of. I also have words between parentheses that I want to get rid of. Example: ($76,800), (N/A)

I select Search > Replace. In “Find What” I put:
( .+)

In “Replace With” I put nothing.

I click “Replace All”. Notepad++ tells me that 0 occurrences were found. What am I doing wrong please?

[dail]

Parenthesis have special meaning to regular expressions. You need to escape them (by putting \ in front of them). So your regex would look like:

\(.+\)

Also, for safety you probably want to do lazy matching :

\(.+?\)

[Laura Malt Schneiderman]

@dail said:

(.+?)

Genius! Thank you!