Replacing an opening parenthesis by an opening parenthesis with a space directly after

[corvannoorloos]

My program version: 18.20.0.1020
My operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit

Hello,

I'm currently looking for a way to replace an opening parenthesis by an opening parenthesis with a space directly after.
Now this would be an easy search + replace action. No expressions needed.
However, if possible, I'd like to skip the opening parenthesis already containing a space directly after.

As an example:

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remove_filter('term_description', 'wpautop');

to

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remove_filter( 'term_description', 'wpautop');

or preferably

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remove_filter( 'term_description', 'wpautop' );

I've been trying to solve this using Google, the search function, and Expresso. Unfortunately without any luck thus far.

Would someone be able to assist here perhaps?

Best Regards,

Cor

[Mofi]

With the UltraEdit regular expression engine search for (^([~ ^t^r^n]^) and use as replace string ( ^1

This is a tagged regular expression searching for an opening parenthesis followed by a character which is NOT a space, tab, carriage return or line feed.

But you need to run this UltraEdit regular expression Replace All several times until nothing replaced anymore in case there are multiple opening parenthesis in a sequence.

For the closing round parenthesis search for ^([~ ^t^r^n]^)) and use as replace string ^1 )

Also this Replace All must be executed until nothing replaced anymore.

Easier would be to simple run a non regular expression Replace All searching for ( and replacing with ( and a space character. Next run a Replace All searching for ( with 2 spaces and use as replace string ( with a single space. This results with just 2 Replace All in the wanted style for opening parenthesis. Next run a non regular expression Replace All searching for ) and replacing with a space charachter and ). Last run a Replace All searching for 2 spaces and ) and use as replace string a single space and ).