Regular Expressions... finding a '('

Hi guys,
Been trying for an hour or so now, but i can't seem to find out how to locate a "(" in a regular expression and the usuall break out characters '\\' doesnt seem to work..
I.e. in the text that I'm searching, the string I want to scrape out may sometimes contain a " ( .* ) " at the end of it, so I've been writing regex's like
([A-Z]) ([a-z]*) ([_]?) ([\\([? ) //more follows
I hope that's clear.. its the last part with the '(' that doesnt work..
o.0
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tried the double backslash.. and still doesn't work.. here's the actual regex I'm writing;
pattern = Pattern.compile("((href=\"/wiki/)([A-Z])([a-z]*)(_)([A-Z])([a-z]*)([A-Z]?)([a-z?]*)([_]?)([\\(]?)", Pattern.MULTILINE);{code}
Edited by: Mark.ONeill on Jan 2, 2008 12:47 AM

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