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• • June 3, 2015 at 4:24 am #75787
    Masood Ahmad

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    Hi there,

    I am stuck with one GREP Style. The code works fine with the GREP Find/Change, but fails when used in GREP Styles:

    Find What: ^.+(?=(\r\r(?i)about the location(?-i)))
    Change to Format: UK Location

    The above code works fine, but when I used the same in the GREP Style, then it didn’t do anything:
    Apply Style: UK_Location
    To Text: ^.+(?=(\r\r(?i)about the location(?-i)))

    The purpose of the code is to apply a character style to the paragraph just before the two para-returns and the text ‘About the location’ For example:

    
Dorset

    About the location

    Bedford

    About the location


    In the above example, the words ‘Dorset’ and ‘Bedford’ needs to be styled with the ‘UK_Location’ character style. Also note that it could be anything not just Dorset or Bedford.

    Please advise where I’m lacking…

    Thanks in advance.

  • June 3, 2015 at 6:37 am #75790
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Thinking about it – it can’t work logically with hard returns.

    The GREP style runs on each paragraph independently

    Dorset – the GREP style looks for that combination you’ve posted, doesn’t find, doesn’t do anything.

    Then it goes to the next paragraph – About the location – again doesn’t find that regex.

    It’s running on each paragraph independently, unlike a find which looks at the text as a whole to find things.

    You can do it – but you should use Soft Returns (shift Return) instead of hard paragraph returns.

    Substitute \r with

  • June 3, 2015 at 6:41 am #75791
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Here – I”ve done this without GREP but rather simple Line Styles

    https://www.filedropper.com/screenshot2015-06-03at143852

  • June 3, 2015 at 6:43 am #75792
    Anonymous

    Inactive

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  • June 3, 2015 at 7:50 am #75795
    Masood Ahmad

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    Hi Eugene,

    Thanks for trying this for me, but this is not the case. Nested Styles won’t work as the string I’m trying to style is a part of huge text, running into multiple pages. In that long-text, the location occurs several times, therefore, I’m trying to automate the styling. The only condition that matches with the location is that there are two hard returns and a heading ‘about the location’ running after it.

    To Text: ^.+(?=(\r\r(?i)about the location(?-i)))

    I have achieved this through a trick but that is leading me to an additional step.

    Any other ideas…

  • June 3, 2015 at 8:49 am #75797
    Anonymous

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    I don’t see how that would ever work in the styles – as it would search each paragraph independent of one another, not reading it all together.

    You could do a find and replace

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