I'm using the \((?!\s)([^()]+)(?<!\s)\) regular expression to match (string) but not ( string ) nor () when searching in Sublime Text.
As VS Code doesn't support backreferences in regular expressions, I was wondering how can modify the original regex to get the same result in this editor.
Any ideas?
You may use
\(([^()\s](?:[^()]*[^()\s])?)\)
See the regex demo
Details
\( - a ( char([^()\s](?:[^()]*[^()\s])?) - Group 1:
[^()\s] - a char other than (, ) and a whitespace(?:[^()]*[^()\s])? - an optional sequence (so as to also match strings like (a), with 1 char inside parentheses) of
[^()]* - 0+ chars other than ( and )[^()\s] - a char other than (, ) and a whitespace\) - a ) char.