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• • June 22, 2011 at 10:22 am #59915
    Anonymous

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    I'm trying to create a GREP search to replace out common things that need to be superscripted. This is the expression I put in the GREP style box and applied a character style.

    (?<=m|in|yd|ft|mi)(3|2)

    It works for m3 and m2, but for some reason it won't get the others separated by the | (or) character.

    Previously I listed them as separate GREP styles in the paragraph style, but it seemed to really slow the document down. I could just do a search and replace it with the character style in the past, but I have had a problem in the past with users editing something with the character style and then their whole paragraph ends up in superscript.

    Does anyone have any suggestions?

  • June 22, 2011 at 3:10 pm #59916
    Theunis De Jong

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    It doesn't work because the lookbehind cannot deal with strings of different lengths. That seems to be a limitation of ID's particular GREP handling; this also doesn't allow repetition codes in a lookbehind. (For lookaheads, it seems to work just fine.)

    You could try grouping into sets of same length:

    ((?<=m)|(?<=yd|ft|mi))(2|3)

    (warning: I didn't try this!)

  • June 23, 2011 at 6:13 am #59919
    Anonymous

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    Worked like a dream!! Thanks a million!

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