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search: fix regex scanner for certain patterns

Administrator requested to merge rvt/fix-scanner-stuff-ggg into main

Created by: rvantonder

Part of https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/13128. Issue prior to this PR, a pattern

Search()\(

would be interpreted as (concat "Search" "()" "\(") due to how the scanner code tries to extract whether parens are parts of patterns or groups. The concat interpretation wasn't a complete disaster, since it meant we searched Search.*\(\).*\(. But that's not correct. This change reuses the scanner for contiguous patterns with parentheses in ParsePattern so we get Search()\(out.

Changing where this scanning happens affected some other inputs in a good or neutral way (in line comments).

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