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• • October 29, 2013 at 5:25 am #66019
    theobear

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    I have a very long document and in the headers I list list the paragraph numbers on the particular page using intools Powerheaders like so:

    N. 123-130

    sometimes there is only one numbered paragraph and (perhaps because I really don’t know how to use powerheaders)it will do this:

    N. 123-123

    because I am in a hurry and don’t want to figure out how to use powerheaders properly (I know, I know) I thought If I could do a find and replace across documents and find something like:

    (the number)-(the same number) and replace with (The number)

    so then 123-123 would be 123
    but it would leave 123-130 alone

    is this possible with grep?

    THANKS

  • October 31, 2013 at 4:26 am #66041
    Anonymous

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    That sounds like more of a scripting thing to me -I don think you have that option in GREP. But there are cleverer people than me on the boards, maybe someone will have a great idea.

  • November 6, 2013 at 4:34 pm #66114
    theobear

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    anyone else?

  • November 11, 2013 at 10:31 pm #66154
    Alvin Leu

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    here it is .. (\d? this is for the number of digits.. for now it works for 1-3 digits)

    find with ..
    (\d\d?\d?)-\1

    replace with
    $1

    • November 15, 2013 at 6:21 pm #66207
      theobear

      Member

      Wow, that’s great. If you get a minute could you explain what is going on. THANKS so much.

  • November 15, 2013 at 7:53 pm #66208
    theobear

    Member

    oh, and also this finds

    11-12

    and matches the 1-1 (the second 1 of the 11 and the first 1 of the 12) any ideas on how to fix this?

  • November 18, 2013 at 10:14 pm #66221
    Alvin Leu

    Member

    You can to detect if its a starting word by adding a

    (\d\d?\d?)-\1

    not sure if it solves your problem

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