groovy: how to escape "(" regex etc in textarea?

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I have some text area field in my grails application. I got the following errors:

.PatternSyntaxException: Unmatched closing ')' near index 36 Name: note: 1) data listing ....

how could i escape the regular expressions in the text area field?

thanks.

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