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• • September 13, 2015 at 8:53 pm #78066
    Chris Court

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    Hey GREP gurus, I’m attempting to detect whether a letter is at the start of a sentence or not. It SEEMS as if this should be a simple task, but it’s been giving me a headache for days.

    For the sake of simplicity, let’s assume a sentence will always begin in one of two ways. 1) Immediately following the beginning of a paragraph, or 2) immediately following a period-space.

    I can find the first case using: ^\K\u
    I can find the second case using: \. \K\u
    but when I try to combine these: (^|\. )\K\u It only gives me the same result as the first case GREP, above, ignoring the second case.

    What am I doing wrong?

    Thanks for any suggestion!

    Chris

  • September 14, 2015 at 9:32 am #78088
    Peter Kahrel

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    The problem is that unlike many other programs, InDesign isn’t very good at finding locations such as ^ and $ on their own. You can’t replace $ with e.g. ) to insert a parenthesis at the end of the paragraph.

    Seems to me that the only way you can get your grep to work is using (\r|\. )\K\u which assumes that a capital after a \r is the beginning of a sentence. You miss the first sentence in a story though.

    Peter

  • September 14, 2015 at 8:24 pm #78097
    Chris Court

    Member

    Thanks for the explanation and suggestion, Peter. Every time I think I’m just getting a grip on GREP, something like this comes along and trips me up. All part of the fun :-D

    C

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