GREP

Here are a few resources for people who want to learn more about using GREP (regular expressions) in InDesign:

Books, Videos, and Documentation

• Erica Gamet’s Introduction to GREP for InDesign, a short online course from CreativePro University
• Peter Kahrel’s GREP in InDesign, 3rd edition, a 129-page PDF ebook published by InDesignSecrets
• David’s “InDesign: 10 Things to Know About GREP” at lynda.com
• Michael Murphy’s in-depth movies about GREP in InDesign at lynda.com
• One of the best books on GREP is Mastering Regular Expressions, by Jeffrey Friedl.
• Adobe’s Live Docs page on GREP (including cool examples and a table of codes).

Software and Websites

• The Treasures of GREP, a Facebook group
• RegExr: Online and AIR based regular expression tester
• The Lightning Brain (rorohiko) GrepGrokker (with tips!)
• Regular-Expressions.info
• IndiGREP (in French), Laurent Tournier’s GREP tips blog

Some InDesignSecrets posts about GREP

• Favorite GREP Expressions You Can Use
• Adventures in GREPland
• Five Cool Things You Can do with GREP Styles
• Find Between (a useful grep string)
• Removing spaces at the end of a story
• Making a character lowercase
• Video tutorial on GREP (pre CS3)
• GREP solution to flawed Title Case feature
• Cheat Sheet for GREP codes
• Adding a special character with a grep style

GREP posts elsewhere:

• Erica Gamet’s GREP cheatsheet PDF
• Cari Jansen having fun with GREP Styles Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
• Adding bullet at end of story
• Rufus Deuchler on Yabb-Adobe-Doo
• You Got Unix in my InDesign
• Peter Kahrel’s Dealing with long GREP expressions
• Ryan Macklin writes about finding any punctuation, any math symbol, and other GREP wildcards
• Want to learn how GREP was named? Computerphile tells the super-geeky history.