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• • November 1, 2015 at 6:54 am #79122
    Nishkam Bharti

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    hi there,

    i have a couple of questions on grep in indesign. can someone help?

    1) i am trying to find a fullstop(.) – end of a sentence, after which, the new sentence starts without a single space. e.g. “this is the end of a sentence.this is the beginning of new sentence”.

    in the above example there is no space after the fullstop(.) and i want to insert one.

    so i am able to find such patterns by grep [\u]\.[\u] with indesign find/change.

    but i am not able to just insert a space using the change. e.g. [\u]\. [\u] does not work. can someone help?

    2) also i am not able to find similar patters where ?/! is used instead of “.”(fullstop). can someone suggest a expression here?

    thanks in advance.

  • November 1, 2015 at 7:19 am #79124
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I suggest looking through some of our many articles about GREP, including “Favorite GREP Expressions You Can Use”
    https://creativepro.com/resources/grep

    In general, you need to need to search for something like (\u\.)(\u) and replace it with $1 $2

    • November 4, 2015 at 4:29 am #79191
      Nishkam Bharti

      Member

      thanks david. that did help.

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