I wasn't clear last time. I wrote:
>I want to match the following:
>1) the letters "PT"
>2) a space or nothing
>3) a word that may or may not be in parentheses or even not exist
>and return item #3 (which may be null)
>Example:
>PT (XYZ) or PT XYZ or PTXYZ or PT
>should return "XYZ" except the last case, which should return "".
>I can do everything except the parentheses case. Any ideas?
The problem is the final parenthesis. If I use (.*) or (\w*) then it
swallows the final parenthesis. I want to discard it if it is present.
Also, the XYZ term may include spaces.
None of the solutions you guys sent do this. Willing to try again?
Thanks again.
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