Regex help for a newby please

[markturner14]

Hi All,  looking for some assistance on what a regex would look like when every new line starts with an open bracket e.g. (

I am a complete novice with regex so asking how this would be achieved.  I kinda understand the error - just not how to resolve.

my error is (from btool.log)

btool-support - Bad regex value: '([\r\n]+)\s*('', of param: props.conf / [<sourcetype] / LINE_BREAKER; why: missing closing parenthesis

Many thanks

[inventsekar]

welcome @markturner14 to the wonderful world of regular expressions! 
hopefully the issue is resolved now i think. 

Please accept @richgalloway 's post or any post closer to your fix, choose it and accept it as the solution. 

Best Regards,

Sekar

PS - your karma points will be my 2 cents!

[richgalloway · Accepted solution]

That's a special character in the regex world.  Treat it as a normal character by escaping it with '\'.

([\r\n]+)\s*\(

[markturner14]

Perfect,  thanks @richgalloway  and all for the fast supportive responses.

Works as expected