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Old 12-28-2012, 03:46 AM   #2
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Since parentheses has a special meaning in RegExps, you have to escape them using backslashes to match them:

\(.*\)

A full match could be:

(.*) \((.*)\)

\1 = Title
\2 = Publisher

See: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=2242243
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