Invert the selection in GREP

I came with a GREP expression to select a paragraph that has a string of text within the parenthesis. It is ^.*\(.+\).*$. It works very well. However, what I really want to do is select all the other paragraphs which do not have this string and remove them. I saw something on a Linux site speaks of an option -v , but it did not work for me, or I don't know how to use it properly. Anyone have any ideas?

Thank you

Randy

This GREP:

^[^()]+$

Selects all paragraphs that are not (or).

Peter

Tags: InDesign

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