GREP help for social media name formatting

Richard S

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    • June 1, 2020 at 9:09 am #1256319
      Richard S
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      Hi guys, I’ve been trying to get my head around this, but I just can’t seem to get the hang of GREP. I’m looking to apply a character style to social media pages, hashtags etc. So anything that looks like this:

      #example
      @example
      /example

      The furthest I’ve got is to get it to apply it to the #, @ and /, and the first letter after it, but not the whole word by doing [#]\w, to use the hashtag as an example. I have absolutely no idea where I’m going wrong or where to go next with it, so any help would be greatly received!

    • June 1, 2020 at 10:00 am #1253203
      Aaron Troia
      Participant

      Hey Richard,

      You are actually pretty close, just need to add a modifier to make the expression more greedy. You could try something like this, which should find all of your examples.

      [@/#]\w+

      Aaron

    • June 2, 2020 at 1:51 am #1253293
      Richard S
      Member

      Aaron, Sir, you are a gent, that’s a massive help. I can’t believe I was so close! And thank you for wrapping it all up in one string, very elegant.

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