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• • June 17, 2013 at 12:34 am #33921
    Gert Verrept

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    This is my problem:
    I have a paragraph composed of the words “TITEL (+ a number)”, next is a blank line, next is the subtitle, followed by a blank line.
    What I’m trying to do is, with a grep, to isolate the lines with the subtitle ONLY. In that way we could apply a para or char style to just the selection. I’d like to automate it, because sometimes we got hundreds of those repeating strings in the law texts.
    ex.
    TITEL 2 (followed by rr)

    This is the subtitle (followed by rr) ——> this what should get seletected and changed in another char of para style

    Art. 2

    Any idea’s?

  • June 17, 2013 at 2:39 am #33923
    Theunis De Jong

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    Usually, situations like these can be solved with a *lookbehind* string in GREP — but you cannot use lookbehind for a text of variable length. So this

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

    will *not* work. But maybe you can do it in reverse:

    1. First apply your subtitle paragraph style to

    ^TITLE.+\r\r.+(?=\r\r)

    2. Then apply your title paragraph style to just

    ^TITLE

  • June 17, 2013 at 5:11 am #33926
    Gert Verrept

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    Jongware,

    Thnks a lot. Works fine. I’m going to try to make it work with the grep query manager, so we can automate it a bit more.
    A shame the variable length doesn’t work.

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