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• • August 13, 2013 at 8:47 am #64825
    Joram

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    I’m working on a project where i have created 4 lists with cross-references.

    I’ll give an example of a single line in one of the lists:

    Noodles 5, 6, 7, 14, 16, 17, 104, 216, 217

    Noodles = label (no cross-reference)
    The numbers are cross-references.

    I would like to use a GREP that will turn the above line into the following:

    Noodles 5-7, 14, 16-17, 104, 216-217

    So consecutive pages are converted to a page range. Single pages are kept. In between a comma followed by a space ‘, ‘. The last pagenumber or page range does not have a comma followed by a space.

    I’m sure there are other people who have needed this or will need this. Does somebody know a custom GREP that will do this? I’m just not good enough with regular expressions :(

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    Just so i can contribute something at least, here’s a GREP for anyone that just needs a pagerange for first to last instance found (would turn the above example into Noodles 5-217).
    Find what: (\d+),.*(\d+)$
    Change to: $1-$2

  • April 19, 2018 at 4:36 pm #103187
    Tiffany Kim

    Member

    Hi Joram, I have the same exact issue now! Trying find consecutive numbers and changing the style to “-“. Did you find a solution for this, by any chance?

  • April 20, 2018 at 4:57 am #103203
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    A single GREP isn’t going to do this for you, you need a bit more machinery. Here’s a script that does what you’re after:

    https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/index_update.html

    Peter

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