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• • July 10, 2014 at 8:54 am #69447
    Kathlyn Tenga-Gonzalez

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    I’ve been learning grep, but need some help.

    I often use this sort of thing in my documents:

    Scooba-doo and scooba-die (Figure 3), that chicken’s (Figure 12) not too young to fry.

    and want the “Figure 3”, but not the parens, bolder
    I learned that the character style would be applied to the string

    (?<=\()Figures?\d+?(.+?)?(?=\))

    But how would I exclude any words or symbols after the word “Figure”?

    Life is real (Figures 3 and 4), life is earnest (Figures 12, 15), if you’re cold, turn up the furnace (Figures 2-19).

    I want “Figures 3 4 12 15 2 19 ” bold, but not the parens or the words/symbols “and , -”

    Thanks!

  • July 25, 2014 at 4:03 am #69666
    Holly Blake

    Member

    Hiya,

    Don’t know if this is too late for you but you can use this expression:

    (?<=\().+?(?=\))

    taken from this page:
    https://creativepro.com/favorite-grep-expressions-you-can-use.php

    which will find any text inside parentheses, but not including the parentheses.

    In your paragraph style go to the GREP style tab and add a new GREP style. In ‘Apply style’, add a bold character style and in ‘to text’, put the expression above.

    Tada!

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