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• • May 12, 2015 at 3:14 am #75287
    Arne Vermeulen

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    Hi,

    i’m working on a manual for a french schoolbook.
    In that manual all the exercises from that schoolbook need to be repeated, but only the 4 first words, followed by ‘…’
    Here’s an example:
    1 This is the first exercise from the schoolbook.
    2 And yes this is off cours the second one.
    Needs to become:
    1 This is the first …
    2 And yes this is …

    All the exercises are styled with the paragraph style ‘exercise’ and are always ‘digit-tab-text.’
    So this is what i use in the F&Ch window:
    Find what: (^\d)((\<\w+\> ){4}).+
    Change to: $1$2…

    This grep works fine until one of the first 4 words contain a quotation mark.
    For example: ‘1 I’m asking a question here.’ is not changed with this grep.

    How can i solve that issue?

    kind regards

  • May 12, 2015 at 9:32 am #75299
    Aaron Troia

    Participant

    I used pretty much the same GREP you provided with a simple tweak, try :

    Find: (^\d)((\<[A-Za-z']+\> ){4}).+
    Replace: $1$2…

    and if you find any other characters (comma’s, periods, semi-colons, etc.), just put them between the square brackets and it will find them too. Let me know if that works for you.

  • May 12, 2015 at 12:51 pm #75317
    Arne Vermeulen

    Member

    Hi, this works fine for me !!!
    Thx for the quick reply.

  • May 15, 2015 at 3:22 am #75389
    Masood Ahmad

    Participant

    @Ron, I tried putting the punctuation marks inside the square brackets but it didn’t worked. Therefore, I tweaked the code to include all of them:

    Find: (^\d)((\<[A-Za-z]+\>[.,?!;:'"]* ){4}).+

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