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• • September 22, 2015 at 1:40 am #78266
    Henk Vrugt

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    Hi all

    I work on an international magazine with lots of numbers and amounts in the text.
    The publisher uses numbers without commas because some countries use periods instead. So things like ‘US$ 10 980 344′ can occur, as wel as ’10 000 tonnes’
    I wrote this little GREPstyle to stop these items breaking: ((£|US\$|€|Yen))?\d{1,3}(\d{3})*
    It works, but WhatTheGrep says the ‘\’ in ‘\$’ is incorrect. Escaping out the ‘$’ is such a basic thing that I can’t believe Jongware’s script seems to have such a bug.
    Just for my peace of mind: what’s happening here?

  • September 22, 2015 at 6:03 am #78267
    David Blatner

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    Does the grep actually work in InDesign? I think it does.

  • September 24, 2015 at 1:43 am #78314
    Peter Kahrel

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    \$ confuses WhatTheGrep probably because $ is a grep symbol. Other escaped grep symbols, too, probably confuse it. You could try \^ and and see what happens.

    Until CC, the $ symbol was problematic in another way as well. InDesign had problems finding more than one instance (on Windows anyway). In CS6 and earlier, using \x24 or [$] is a workaround.

  • October 2, 2015 at 5:08 am #78485
    Henk Vrugt

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    Thanx, Peter and David
    This problem only seems to occur with the dollar sign:

    \~\|\+\?\*\^\$\.\{\}\{\}\(\)

    Literal (single) backslash
    \~ Literal tilde
    \| Unnecessary escaped character (safer to use ‘|’)
    \+ Literal plus sign
    \? Literal question mark
    \* Literal asterisk
    \^ Literal caret
    \$ Unnecessary escaped character (safer to use ‘$’)
    \. Literal period
    \{ Literal opening curly brace
    \} Literal closing curly brace
    \{ Literal opening curly brace
    \} Literal closing curly brace
    \( Literal opening parenthesis
    \) Literal closing parenthesis

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