I'm processing a small file. At the end of the processing, before printing to the screen.. i'm trying to strip the parantheses from a line in the file. Here's the line.. $url = "(http://www.somewebsite.com)";, I want it to look like this:$url = "http://www.somewebsite.com"; The problem is that i have a couple lines earlier in the script that also have a parantheses.. that need to remain. So i'm trying to come up with a regex match that will find the  "( and  )" in the line and remove the paratheses. I tried this: $text =~ s/\)?//; but it removes all the parantheses in the file. Any Idea's? Lisa.

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