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• • January 21, 2010 at 3:07 pm #54587
    DMilson

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    Dear All,

    I would like to use GREP to search/replace all instances of footnote markers then punctuation:

    (~F)([;|,|.]) with $2$1.

    I'm using CS4 on Windows Bootcamp. Any suggestions as to why this doesn't work, or what will?

    Thanks in advance,

    David

  • January 22, 2010 at 6:25 am #54593
    LAURENT TOURNIER

    Member

    Hello,

    With GREP, it is impossible, because footnote marker can't be entered in the Change To box. You can do it with a script.

    I use this one :

    app.findGrepPreferences = null;
    app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
    app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeFootnotes = false;

    var pattern = “[,;.]+~F”;

    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = pattern;
    var finds = app.activeDocument.findGrep();
    for (var i = finds.length-1 ; i>=0 ; i–)
    {
    finds[i].characters.item(-1).move(
    LocationOptions.before,
    finds[i].characters.item(0)
    );
    }
    app.findGrepPreferences = null;
    app.changeGrepPreferences = null;

  • January 22, 2010 at 7:03 am #54594
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    It seems to do it fine if you use Change All

    Weird

    But then you have to remove the full point from the end of the footnote

    So

    find: (~F)([[:punct:]])

    Change to $2$1

    <press change all)

    Then

    find: (?<=~F)[[:punct:]]

    Change:

    <press change all>

    I suppose it's a good idea to back up the file first – this might be more trouble than it's worth – then again it might not?

  • January 22, 2010 at 7:23 am #54595
    LAURENT TOURNIER

    Member

    “It seems to do it fine if you use Change All“

    J'en apprends tous les jours, but I would like understand why.

    My example with the script is for french typo, for english you had to inverse: ~F[,;.]

    If you used two regex or more, Peter Kahrel's script (chain_grep_queries) is very very useful.

  • January 22, 2010 at 8:14 am #54597
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    I don't know – it doesn't do it perfectly – that's why I suggest making a copy of the file first.

    I think it's a bug/

  • May 11, 2011 at 7:12 pm #59573
    AaronA

    Participant

    I tried same, and with a 'Change All' it does work, sort of. Actually it adds the same punctuation mark again on each replace. So where before you had 5.

    (where '5' is the footnote reference marker)

    you now have .5.

    So another search is needed to weed out the added punctuation. Not very time-efficient this way.

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