Reply To: Make everything bold before (and included) a colon using GREP?

March 21, 2013 at 3:53 pm #64462

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Easy. Use this:

^.+?:

It comes down to this:

^ from the start of a paragraph ..

. match any character ..

+ .. as much as possible ..

? .. and then the shortest match ..

: .. up to a colon.

The '?' is necessary here because without it, the '+' would match as much as possible, all the way up to the very last colon in a single paragraph.

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