Reply To: Can you all help with a GREP de-bug

edit: for some reason the forward slash isn't showing up where i type it so i've bolded the characters that need a forward slash preceding them

assuming you're not using any 1000+ page books you could just search for

(?<+[,:]s)d{1,3}(?=D)

that would find any 3 digit number or less that is preceded by a ,s or :s

(?<+[,:]s)d+

or this also finds 4 digit numbers but not if they're not preceded by ,s or :s

I'm not at my work computer today so i can't test this right now. but I'll check back on monday to see if your problem is solved.