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GREP To Distinguish URL and Email Address

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    • March 3, 2016 at 11:55 am #82580
      Alice Benninger
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      Hello All,

      I am working on some templates in InDesign and I need a GREP expression that will bold urls that do not use “www.” without bolding emails, money using decimals, P.O., U.S., etc.

      Below is an expression that I found online that gets me close but it’s still picking up the email address (except for the @ symbol). I was thinking I might be able to use that @ symbol to distinguish the url from the email but I’m not sure how.

      Also, I’m concerned that if the URL ends in a “/” that would not be bolded because of the use of [[:punct:]]

      This is the GREP expression I found:
      (?![[:punct:]])[\S]{2,}\.[\S]{2,}(?<![[:punct:]])

      I need these items to be bold:
      testurl.com
      testurl.com/abcd/

      I need these items to not be bold:
      Punctuation following urls (excluding “/” that could be part of the URL)
      joe.smith@testurl.com
      26.00
      P.O. Box
      U.S.

      Any ideas on how to make this work?

    • March 4, 2016 at 4:36 am #82608
      Masood Ahmad
      Participant

      Alice, please check, if these can be helpful to you:

      https://creativepro.com/free-script-to-automate-adding-visible-urls.php/comment-page-1#comment-1806451

      https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_pLmZ05_3rcQW9pQWd2ZE5pc1U/view

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