Regex match jQuery selectors

PHP
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I’m doing some search and replace work to batch update some files and I need to replace this:

$(‘#navbar > ul ul’)
with
$(Drupal.settings.sooperfish.invoke)

where the selector part navbar > ul ul can be any selector, restricted by that its only made up of lowercase letters and > . # signs.

I’m doing seacrh and replace with notepad++ and from examples I think my regex for finding the first string should look something like this:

\$\(\‘\#[A-Z]\’\)

Im not sure if all those characters need to escaped but adding and removing backslashes doesn’t make this query succesful

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Finally I made some regex that works:
\$\('#[^\)]+\)\.

this regex stuff looks incredibly difficult and strange in the beginning but I was able to make this with the help of this page: http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/regex.htm after trying dozens of queries that didn’t work.