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• • January 25, 2018 at 6:53 pm #101242
    John Reynolds

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    Massive list of names (2K+) followed by addresses, etc. Each block of name info is its own paragraph. I need to locate the second comma from the beginning and make it bold. The second comma will always be after the first name.

    Names are ^last[comma1] first MI[comma2] (if there is a MI)

    I need to locate ROMAN comma 2 and make it BOLD.

    Thanks for any assistance!
    JR

  • January 26, 2018 at 12:09 am #101247
    Graham Park

    Member

    This is not elegant but should work for you
    Add these GREP to your paragraph style
    The first one will make all the text bold up to the second comma, the second will then over ride the first style to make the text roman. They have to be in this order to work.

    Style – BOLD
    ^[\u]+,[\u]+,

    Style – NORMAL
    ^[\u]+,[\u]+

  • January 26, 2018 at 1:59 am #101248
    Vinny –

    Member

    What about using 2 nested styles?
    Apply [none] up to 2 commas
    Apply Bold through 1 comma

  • January 26, 2018 at 3:13 am #101250
    Graham Park

    Member

    That is a better solution

  • January 26, 2018 at 5:34 am #101251
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

    Participant

    Vinny,

    A simple Grep style seems to me always more relevant! but it’s a personal view! …

    (?s)^.*?,.*?\K,

    (^/)

  • January 26, 2018 at 6:00 am #101252
    Vinny –

    Member

    @Obi
    Okay but… why?

  • January 26, 2018 at 7:00 am #101262
    Graham Park

    Member

    (?s) Single Line ON
    ^ Start of paragraph
    .*? FInd any character Zero ore more times Shortest match
    , Followed by a comma
    .*? FInd any character Zero ore more times Shortest match
    \K Positive Look-behind
    , This is what the positive look behind is matching if the above conditions are met.

    \K allows for the use of the wildcards that the normal positive look behind does not.

    Very nice Obi-wan

  • January 26, 2018 at 7:25 am #101263
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

    Participant

    Teacher Park! Thanks for the technical exegesis! [I appreciate!]

    (^/)

    [I however consider (?s) here as an aberration, but it a personal point of view!]

  • January 26, 2018 at 11:51 am #101265
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Personally, I would use Nested Styles instead of GREP Styles for something simple. But both are good. :-)

    But it sounds like John wanted to use Find/Change to do this. So in that case, GREP is the way to go.

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