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GREP command that finds the character after or before a word or character(s)

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    • January 19, 2019 at 7:14 pm #113758
      Anonymous
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      Struggling with this one.

      Want to find a grep command that finds the character before or after a phrase or character. for example: it finds character before elect. So if i write “Select” it will apply a character style to the “S” in select. Or i want to find the character after “.space” or “:space” or “;space” so i can apply a character style to the letter at the start of a sentence.

      Chris

    • January 19, 2019 at 8:32 pm #113761
      Aaron Troia
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      Hey Chris,

      Based on your punctuation example, this should work for that: (?:\.|,|;)\K\w

      With the \K there is no capture group, so your replace field I believe you would use $0 which just replaces whatever is found with itself.

      Aaron

    • January 20, 2019 at 4:30 am #113763
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Thanks a lot Aaron. You really helped me out!

      Still curious if its possible to find the character before a phrase. This way i can apply a character style to the first character of a predetermined word. In my project i need the word “enhance” to always start with a capital “E”. So if i there is a command that finds the character before “nhance” i would be able to do that.

      Chris

    • January 20, 2019 at 8:36 pm #113768
      Aaron Troia
      Participant

      oh good! Yes it is possible to find the first character of a predetermined word, try

      e(?=nhance)

    • January 21, 2019 at 12:04 am #113770
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Nice, thanks again!

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