Good answers above; suggestion below as a variant way of saying "Welcome to the Monastery."
Please read:
- On asking for help which may help understand why Monks asked that you outline your expectations (specfically, what you wanted) and what you actually got (as it's not absolutely clear whether you want to capture the enclosing parens or not).
- Then check Markup in the Monastery and Writeup Formatting Tips for formatting guidance (hint: pre is strongly discouraged.)
Re your code: Note that the [ ... ] does NOT "escape" the character(s) it encloses in the usual sense (though it will cause the paren to be treated as a literal, in a regex). But so too will the customary escape character, the backslash (\).
If you plan to do much with Perl regexen, Mastering Regular Expressions (ca $US45.) and/or O'Reilly's "Regular Expressions Pocket Reference" ( <$US10.) are well worth the investment.
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Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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