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GREP with character styles ? start/end of range

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    • February 3, 2011 at 3:17 am #58629
      Rhiannon Miller
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      If you run a GREP search with a character style specified in the Find options, then $ no longer means 'end of paragraph', but instead means 'end of style range'. But ^ still means 'start of paragraph'. Is there another code that means 'start of style range'?

      What I'm looking for is, in a text string such as

      Blah blah blah blah 54 blah blah blah blah aardvarks 234 blah blah blah blah stingray 56 blah blah blah 95 blah blah.

      to match the numbers that appear in italics on their own, and not the ones preceded by a word in italics. Is this at all possible? I know that GREP assumes that anything in a look-before or look-ahead must have the same formatting specified in the Find options, so I could easily find 234 in 'aardvarks 234' but not 54 on its own, but how do I do it the other way around?

    • February 3, 2011 at 7:29 am #58631
      Theunis De Jong
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      (?<!.)d+(?!.)

      There is a caveat emptor with this; it assumes the spaces between your “aardvarks” and “234” are also italics; if not, this GREP will find the number, because it's a number in italics without anything before or after (in italics).

    • February 4, 2011 at 9:05 am #58643
      Rhiannon Miller
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      Excellent, that works wonderfully. Thanks yet again!

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