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• • November 13, 2019 at 10:38 am #1196613
    John Gagliardi

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    Hi GREPsters, I love the convenience of GREP styles, but the syntax drives me bonkers, so I’m appealing to the experts. I need to apply a different character style to any text AFTER a price, or more specifically lowercase o|t|f. What’s the syntax to ignore anything before the price, Another way to look at it would be to start at the END of the paragraph and format everything until you hit a digit. Thanks!

  • November 13, 2019 at 11:16 am #14323715
    Aaron Troia

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    John,

    You could try positive lookbehinds but I think the best way would to use Keep (/K) which acts like a positive lookbehind but is nongreedy.

    Aaron

  • November 13, 2019 at 11:20 am #14323714
    John Gagliardi

    Member

    Thanks Aaron, where does (/K) go in the GREP string? Like this?: \$*.* o|t|f(/K)

  • November 13, 2019 at 12:16 pm #14323713
    Aaron Troia

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    I would do \$\d+?\.\d+?\Ko|t|f which should ignore the dollar sign, the decimal, any digits before and after the decimal, and the space after and only apply the character style to o|t|f

    also sorry for the wrong syntax for Keep, I meant to write \K in my previous post

  • November 13, 2019 at 12:42 pm #14323712
    John Gagliardi

    Member

    Thanks Aaron, it’s closer, but still no cigar. Using that GREP, if there is a t or f before the price, the style is changed, but not the o. After the price, the t and f change as I want, but not the o.

  • November 13, 2019 at 1:31 pm #14323711
    Aaron Troia

    Participant

    Hey John,

    Oh you’re right, I think I should have wrapped the letters after the price in parenthesis \$\d+?\.\d+?\K(o|t|f) that at least fixes it on my end.

  • November 14, 2019 at 7:51 pm #14323704
    John Gagliardi

    Member

    Thanks so much Aaron, this will work in 95% of the cases. However, in those rare instances where there is more than one character after the price, only the first character is reformatted. I thought changing (o|t|f) to (?+) would solve this but it didn’t.

  • November 15, 2019 at 3:05 am #14323700
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    Aaron is definitely on the right track this far, but it looks like we’re going to need to see some actual examples here.

  • November 16, 2019 at 12:06 pm #14323693
    Jeremy Howard

    Participant

    This may be what you are looking for:

    \$\d+?\.\d+?\K(o|t|f)(\w+)?

    I just added “(\w+)?” to the end of the GREP expression that Aaron Troia posted.

    The Breakdown:
    “\w” = any word character
    “+” = one or more times
    “(” & “)” = enclosing an expression the create a “captured group”
    “?” = may or may not exist.

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