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• • May 15, 2018 at 3:49 am #103767
    Scott Croft

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    Hi All

    I’m currently working on a document which has various lists of names which need a bit of formatting. It’s simple enough to do manually but I’m fairly sure it should be something that could be done using GREP but it’s beyond my skills.

    An example of the how the lists look:

    Name Surname E 89
    Name Surname E 86
    Name Surname E 76
    Name Surname E 89
    Name Surname E 77
    Name Surname E 89

    All I need to do is remove the space between the ‘E’ and the Numbers.

    I’ve got GREP to find the bit I’m looking for by getting it to Search for E \d so it’ll find any E followed by a space and a digit but I can’t get it just change the space (well remove it)

    Might anyone be kind enough to give me a hand with this, I’m sure it’ll be something really simple that I’m missing.

  • May 15, 2018 at 4:03 am #103768
    Claudio Marconato

    Member

    Hi Scott,
    you can easily put what you search for into a variable so that you can change those variables with the same values.

    In your example you can find: (E) (\d)
    This way E became the variable $1 and \d become the $2

    So that you can change your text with: $1$2

    and it’s done

    Let me if it’s work

  • May 15, 2018 at 4:06 am #103771
    Xevi Olivé

    Member

    Hi, Scott,

    Do you really need GREP?

    I think a simple Find/Change will do the the job…

    Search for “E ” and change for “E”.

  • May 15, 2018 at 4:11 am #103772
    Scott Croft

    Member

    Thanks guys!!

    Claudio, that has worked perfectly thank you.

    Xevi, I do need GREP because I have a lot of Capitals in the list that aren’t followed by digits

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