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• • March 5, 2013 at 3:40 am #64329
    Gaspar

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    Hi everyone,

    I have to swap many occurences of (180 x 130 cm) into 180 x 130 cm (the actual dimentions vary). So without the parentheses. In the GREP find field I type this equation: (.+?) which finds the occurences correctly. Now, what do I have to type in the Change field, so that the text in parenthesis stays and the parenthesis are gone? I can't find any useful variables in the flyout menu.

    Thanks very much.

  • March 5, 2013 at 3:49 am #64330
    Eugenyus

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    Find What: ((.+?))

    Change To: $1

  • October 15, 2013 at 4:51 am #65794
    Dimitri De Bruyn

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    The reply form Eugenyus is not correct. Or he did not copy and paste the backslash in the expression.

    This one is tested en works perfectly..

    Find: \((.+?)\)

    Change to: $1

  • October 15, 2013 at 5:36 am #65795
    Matt Mayerchak

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    The expression above will remove ALL parenthetical expressions from your text. Is that what you want?

    You could narrow it down to just finding sets of dimensions using centimeters by changing it to \((\d+ x \d+ cm)\) – but this won’t find fractions or decimal percentages. However, there are ways to do all of those as well, so it’s just a matter of how specific you need to be or how general you can get away with being.

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