Is there a way to use \p{Punct} in a regex(java), but without the “(”,“)” characters?

Question

Is there a way to use \\p{Punct} in a regex in java, but without the two characters ( and ) ?

Answer 1

This should work:

[\p{Punct}&&[^()]]

&& is the intersection operator for character classes, so the intersection of \p{Punct} and [^()] is what you're after. See Character Classes.