It worked in my test, but I now notice that you've got a space before the
trailing parens.  Try this for the second code bit:

<cfset str = reReplace(str,";\d+-\d+\s*\)","")>

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On Dec 6, 2010 1:34 PM, "Rick Colman" <rcol...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> this removed the leading parent, but did not remove the ;xxx-yyy numbers
> at the end of each line or the final trailing paren )
>
> like
>
> (T ACT) (M ATG) (D GAT) (H CAC) (L CTG) (E GAG) (K AAA) (N AAC) (E GAA)
> ;1210-1218 )
>
> On 12/6/2010 11:16 AM, Jacob Munson wrote:
>> <cfset str = reReplace(str,"^\(","")>
>> <cfset str = reReplace(str,";\d+-\d+\)","")>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Rick Colman<rcol...@cox.net> wrote:
>>> Been whacking at this one for a while, and it eludes me.
>>>
>>> ((T ACC) (I ATT) (T ACT) (P CCA) (E GAA) (T ACT) (S TCC) (R CGT) (P CCA)
>>> (I ATC) ;0-9
>>> (T ACT) (M ATG) (D GAT) (H CAC) (L CTG) (E GAG) (K AAA) (N AAC) (E GAA)
>>> ;1210-1218)
>>>
>>> remove only single leading paren (
>>> remove only trailing single paren )
>>> leave all others
>>>
>>> remove ;xxx-yyy at the end of each line (unix line) where xxx is a
>>> number and yyy is a number
>>>
>>> so that the result looks like:
>>>
>>> (T ACC) (I ATT) (T ACT) (P CCA) (E GAA) (T ACT) (S TCC) (R CGT) (P CCA)
>>> (I ATC) (T ACT) (M ATG) (D GAT) (H CAC) (L CTG) (E GAG) (K AAA) (N AAC)
>>> (E GAA)
>>>
>>> You will advance the state of genomic science !!!
>>>
>>> (yuck ... I hate RE ...)
>>>
>>> Rick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
> 

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