Help with GREP

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• Help with GREP search and replace

  I've never used grep before and I'm stumped.  I have a document that lists the times for different classes.  Times are variously listed as 9-10, 9-10, 9-10 or 9-10, to get examples.  The problem is that there may be no space or a space on the left or the right of the hyphen.  I want it all the time as 10:30 - 11:30, for example.  In other words, the link must have a space on each side of it.  I think that this could be accomplished with GREP search and replace, but I don't understand the syntax well enough to make it work.

  Can someone tell me how to write the search and replace expressions?  (Of course the real time could be any hours).

  Thank you!

  It is tempting to add spaces of * all numbers separated by a dash. If you don't know all time have some minutes, then it is safer to use this:

  (?<=:\d\d)>

  .. Replace with space hyphen space.

  He seeks the "settler, any digit, any digit" (which is * found * not * included *), followed by 'optional of a space, a hyphen, optional space' and must be followed by 'any number' (again, not counting this one). Since the figures before and after are * found * not * included *-which is due to the (? xxx) syntax - all that needs to be replaced is the dashboard itself. Making the space before and after the optional dashboard (using a single "?" immediately after each), no matter if it * is * a space or not, all the combinations will be found and replaced.

• Need help with GREP expressions

  I know - KNOW - there is a way to do it, but keep my GREP expressions.

  I want to add an em dash before any sentence that is in a paragraph style. So I obviously want the em dash to be in the 'start of the paragraph' location. Lack of keep all my GREP searches. Can anyone help?

  Adobe of the 'start of the subsection' implementation is just a little off the coast of standard GREP (which, in itself, is less a set of hard and fast rules but rather as "guidelines"). Yes - you can Search for beginning of paragraph using plain ^, but you cannot use it with a replace operation.

  The trick is to give something to look for in InDesign. Search

  ^.
  

  (it's just - a wildcard just after the start of a paragraph). You don't want to lose the character it finds, so replace it with

  ~_$0
  

  where the first 2 codes is your dash and the last 2 is 'the text together. This is your original found generic character!

  Don't forget to put your paragraph style in the box of formatting to find.

  Of workaround works around the failure of implementation, because indeed, you want to add something to an existing text. Unfortunately, another pretty standard GREP to search for empty paragraphs-^ $-does not work, because then you have no room for a wildcard... (and Yes, you pouvez use a hard return instead of code \r is first or last, but then it will not work at the beginning or at the end of the story). It's one of those things that I wish to see corrected with CS5.

  [Edit] HA! Peter beat me to it, but he has made a typo. In addition, my story is longer.

• Help with GREP and number formatting, deletion of the brackets. I'm halfway there!

  Hello, I need to format a ton of numbers (#) phone #-# to #-#-#. I have the research work:

  (\(\d{3}\) [] \d{3})

  But I can't understand how to make the change... can someone please help me with the ' put in place: "entry?

  Thank you!

  You can use the query already defined in the drop-down list that allows you to convert the format in brackets for a point and in the change field format to replace the dots with-, for $1 - $ 2 - $3

• Help with Grep Lookaround

  I'm trying to find the first occurrence of a block of text (American) and everything up to but not including the second occurrence of the same block of text. The type of content between the two blocs can be anything, including fractions. The number of lines between two occurrences varies.

  I use the following without success grep search statement.

  ((?<=) \AAMERICAN) (\d*[\l\u]*.* * \w*\u*\l* *) ((?!) AMERICAN)

  Can anyone lead me in the right direction please?

  Thanks for your time and your help.

  Try this:

  ( ? s). AMERICAN. + ? (? = OF AMERICA)

  (? s) is the acronym mode only "line, you need because you want to cover lines, and. does not match (i.e. don't go beyond) paragraph boundaries (i.e. \r). Then do you match the everyhing to the first occurrence of AMERICA until the next occurrence. (? = AMERICAN) is the abbreviation of ', not to mention AMERICAN. '

  Peter

• InDesign: Help with Grep Styles (do not always work)

  I found this excellent tutorial which allows styles GREP simulate the functionality of the HTML tags.

  So that the cat sat on the Mat < /b > < b > will appear in InDesign as: the cat sat on the Mat.

  The problem is that this does not always work.

  Here I have two text elements that are displayed on pages separated into separate text boxes. Both have the same paragraph style applied to them (who use the technical HTML GREP)

  < b > "Make fool me super fast, birthday card from Jonathan!" < /b > add Ben.

  Holly wand Glitters and brushes lift into the air.

  "It works!" shouts Holly and Ben.

  < b > "Humpy, lumpy, bumpy, do."

  Nice and comfortable King thistle. "< /b >

  "Thank you, you can go now."

  Nanny Plum,' said King thistle.

  The first paragraph works perfectly. The < b > tags are hidden and the bold character style is applied.

  Paragraph 2 does not work. The < b > tags are hidden, but the characters are not "BOLD".

  This could be the cause?

  Here is my code GREP:

  Apply the Style HTML to text: (< \/*b >)

  Apply bold to the text: (< b >). + (< /b >)

  (Style HTML is used to hide the HTML characters. "Style"BOLD"makes"BOLD").

  Thanks for any help that can be offered

  Is there a paragraph return after 'make '? You can check by turning on the view-> display-> Normal Mode and then Type-> display hidden characters (not sure on the last of them, my phone isn't InDesign on it).

  GREP styles may cover several paragraphs. So if the opening tag "BOLD" is in one paragraph, and the closing tag is in the second paragraph, it'll never work.

• Brochure... need help with GREP

  Hello people.

  I'm working on a brochure in InDesign (CS4). It is a brochure of jewelry with wholesale prices (W) and the suggested retail price (SRP).

  Unfortunately they have been entered backwards, through the entire document, then all wholesale prices appear suggested retail price and vice versa.

  Is there a way to use GREP to crawl through the document and return the price? I've attached a screenshot of the price line. The "BOLD" is a character style.

  Thanks for the tips!

  

  She worked here, so there's a good chance there is something different about what you typed in the price line and as I walked, and I think I see. I left out the colon after the SRP. Sorry about that.

  Try this way: (\d+(\.\d\d)*) (\(SRP\): \$)(\d+(\.\d\d)*)

  If it still does not respond, it's probably the spaces (there is an ordinary space before and after \(SRP) :) and you could use (\d+(\.\d\d)*)(\s\(SRP\):\s\$)(\d+(\.\d\d)*) that will pick up any sort of white space where there is a fixed width space or a tab.

• Need help with GREP query-extract

  Hi people,

  I'm trying to harden a GREP query, I have reconstitute.

  This discovery channel allows me to search for text in the < ex > tags and remove the tags themselves. We then apply the Exchange my extract paragraph style field.

  ( ? s). (< ex > *) (.+?) (* < /ex >)

  What I need to do is add a blank line above and below the excerpt. In addition to the string?

  TIA

  Yes, by changing to \r$2\r

  BUT this text is already a paragraph? If this is the case, it would be preferable to add a space before and after as part of the style. If this isn't the case, I'm not sure that adding the returns in the same operation will not change the text from which it is extracted, then you want to find all first . +? change \r$0\r without change the formatting and then run that you now have to change the format on the excerpt.

• Need help with the GREP search delete numbers

  Hello everyone,

  
  I have the text with the following reference numbers, I need to remove the numbers before each start of paragraph, but some figures following the space, some of the figures are without space. Please help me remove these figures with GREP or MS Word search or other means

  Before:

  1 Apple

  2Ant

  4 animals

  55 flowers

  56Doctor

  466 painters

  467Teacher

  After:

  Apple

  Ant

  Animals

  Flowers

  Doctor

  Painters

  Teacher

  Thank you
  Siva
  
  

  Try this GREP and replace it with nothing:

  {^ \s{0,}\d+\s{0,}

• Urgent need help with find and change / GREP

  I'm working on a manual that contains more than a thousand paintings. I'm not quite familiar with GREP and need help to determine the right to coding/jokers to change the character style to a group of words/numbers on a global basis.

  For example, in Chapter 7, a paragraph style is applied to this line of text:

  TABLE 7.1: T4, T3, FREE T4 AND FREE T4ED

  I need to change "table 7.1:" for a character style and so of suite/so on up to "Table 7,150:"-while leaving the other numbers on the same line unchanged also.»» Is it possible to do without having to manually each table style number?

  gd247 wrote:

  I'm working on a manual that contains more than a thousand paintings. I'm not quite familiar with GREP and need help to determine the right to coding/jokers to change the character style to a group of words/numbers on a global basis.

  For example, in Chapter 7, a paragraph style is applied to this line of text:

  TABLE 7.1: T4, T3, FREE T4 AND FREE T4ED

  I need to change "table 7.1:" for a character style and so of suite/so on up to "Table 7,150:"-while leaving the other numbers on the same line unchanged also.»» Is it possible to do without having to manually each table style number?

  No need for GREP. If "TABLE 7.1:" is text, you can create a nested character style that extends through the colon, in the paragraph style. "

  If "TABLE 7.1:" is created by a numbered list of automatic type paragraph style, you can specify a character style named for the part of automatic numbering in the drop-down menu Style of character, in the Style of numbering of the chips section and numbering of the dialog box Options of paragraph style. If the character style does not exist, you can stay in the operation of paragraph options by choosing 'New Style of character' in the menu. After you create the new style, you're back in the process of definition of the paragraph.

  HTH

  Kind regards

  Peter

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• Find whole words with Grep Style

  Hi, need some help with this, he cannot know.

  I need to find some words in the style of a paragraph. I have created a character style to 'be bold' and you want to paraghaph style 'ainesosat' to use it when there are words in the paragraph.

  the words are for example

  Rasvaton maitojauhe

  Maitojauhe

  Juustojauhe

  Kerma

  VOI

  I know I can find these with this string:

  Rasvaton maitojauhe | Maitojauhe | Juustojauhe: Kerma. VOI

  but I don't want to find for example:

  Voimakassuolainen

  -includes "Voi".

  Also the words could begin with capital letter or not. I can of course dublicate chain and do both, with or without capital letters, but if there is a better solution for it, I'd be happy to hear...

  Tero

  1. add parentheses and word limits:

  \b(rasvaton maitojauhe | Maitojauhe | Juustojauhe | Kerma. \B voi)

  2. Add the flag "ignore case" at the beginning:

  (? i) \b(Rasvaton maitojauhe | Maitojauhe | Juustojauhe | Kerma. \B voi)

  See InDesign help | Find/replace for GREP options. You can use almost all the search commands in a GREP style, but does not replace those. ('Almost', because a GREP style, by definition, is limited to a single paragraph to work, and tempting to cross paragraphs automatically him will fail.)

• Find the last characters with grep

  I'm lousy with grep and didn't find the solution with google, we will so ask here (help me, please...)

  I need to find the last 7 characters in a paragraph and assign a character style "not break". I know that all the rest, but what is the string to find the last 7 characters (white space included, numbers and letters).

  Thanks in advance.

  try searching. {7} $

• GREP: How is it possible to place a (for example) "*" before and after the text in bold with GREP?

  Hello.

  I have a string of text as such:

  

  I want to use GREP to insert a "*" (asterisk) before and after each "BOLD" part. I can do it with GREP?

  (if the asterisk is a problem, I can use a different character)

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Hi Schmaltzkopf,

  Try this:

  

  Have fun

• Formatting of every other sentence with GREP

  Hey gang

  Maybe can you help with this:

  I want to apply a character style to all the other sentences in a very long paragraph. I figured out how to isolate a single sentence:

  ( ? < = \.\s)\u.+\. ?

  However, I'm not quite fluent with GREP to find out how to tell it to skip all the other sentences. I feel I'm missing something super clear here. any help is very appreciated.

  Thank you!

  ~ R

  It seems that by "one sentence" you mean: begin with capital letter and always ends up by '. '? "

  If so, it's OK: (?<> )

• Need help with Macbook

  Hello, I recently bought a Macbook from a friend and since I got the Mac it's very very slow at doing things like browsing the internet using Safari, it takes forever to load, web pages and all sorts of things that I'd like to get help with this problem maybe a few recommendations and also on how to speed up... If you need to care about Macbook, I can give these thx.

  To sell or transfer ownership of a Mac, even to a member of your family, you must follow these instructions. So far, you will have continuous problems.

  Refer to what to do before you sell or give away your Mac

  1. If you have enabled FileVault, disable it in system preferences > Security and privacy.
  2. "Remove" your iTunes account. Ditto for Audible if you have one.
  3. System Preferences > iCloud > deselect 'Back to My Mac' and 'find my Mac '.
  4. Disconnect from iCloud. Select "Delete from Mac" when it appears.

  Next: delete all of your personal information by erasing the internal storage of the Mac completely.

  1. If your Mac comes with a grey system installation DVD, start up your Mac with this disc in the optical drive, all holding the key c to boot from it instead of its internal volume, which must be erased before selling.
     • Apple stopped Macs shipment requiring these discs in August 2011.
  2. If your Mac does not comes with disks, boot OS X Internet Recovery:
     • using three fingers press on and hold the following keys: ⌘(command), optionand R.
     • With a fourth finger, press the power button to turn on the Mac.
     • Keep the other three fingers here where they are until you see the icon "spinning globe.
     • This method force the Mac to download BONES initially installed from Apple servers, that won't require not an Apple ID install.
  3. Remove any password Open Firmware, if you created a: select utility password firmware in the Utilities menu and remove.
  4. Select disk utility from the utilities menu.
  5. Delete all partitions that can be created.
  6. Select the icon for the hard drive to the Mac, and then select the tab "delete".
  7. Click on the 'Security Options' button and erase the drive.
     • More "robustly" you erase the disc, the longer it will.
     • The fastest method is sufficient, since all but the techniques more expensive and equipment will be able to recover data deleted safely.
  8. When he finishes, quit disk utility.
  9. In the utility menu, select Install Mac OS X .
     • An identifier Apple won't be necessary. If a prompt for an Apple ID, return to step 5.
     • Do not create user accounts.
  10. When he finishes, shut down the computer.
  11. If you want to install the bundled apps that have been included with your Mac, restart using your DVD Applications if it was included and install the bundled apps.
      • Apps, delivered with the new Macs sold without disks cannot be transferred. His new owner must buy them from the Mac App Store with its own Apple ID.

  If the Mac is sold to someone outside the family, consider the following additional information:

  1. System provided with your Mac installation DVD must stay with him forever and be included in the sale.
  2. Consider including your AppleCare certificate if you bought it, documents printed, same box if you have.
     • AppleCare remains with the equipment and can be transferred.
  3. Run an invoice indicating the serial number of the Mac.
  4. Once is no longer in your possession, remove the Mac of your devices in my support profile.