Join Michael Murphy for an in-depth discussion in this video Building with modifiers: Case sensitivity, part of Learning GREP with InDesign.
The next few modifiers we are going to look at are grouped under the Modifiers…sub menu because they modify how GREP behaves.…GREP has certain default behaviors, such as case-sensitivity, and the…metacharacters in this sub menu allow you to change some of those defaults.…Let's start with case-sensitivity.…I am on page 10 of this document and I want to build a GREP expression that…searches for the word 'king', regardless of case.…So, with my cursor in the body text, I'll right-click on the Style name…Body Text in the Paragraph Styles panel, choose Edit "Body Text", go to GREP…Style, and I am going to create a New GREP Style for this purpose.…
From the Apply Style menu, I am going to choose my Red character style again.…That turns my text red, and clear out this default.…I want to look for the word 'king' with case-sensitivity turned off.…First let's see what happens if I just type in king and click off here.…It matches 'king', in lowercase here, but it's also going to match any partial word…
Author
Michael Murphy
Released
11/18/2009- Using metacharacters, the building blocks of GREP
- Describing text that may not exist with zero operators
- Applying multiple character styles to the same text with GREP styles
- Eliminating orphaned words at the ends of paragraphs
- Preserving and recalling subexpressions
- Customizing a GREP-based text cleanup script for long documents
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Q: In the “Dynamically fixing orphaned words with GREP” tutorial the author uses the term:
(?<=\w)\s(?=\w+[[:punct:]]+$)
In an earlier course the author described the + (one or more) modifier as unusable in a lookbehind or lookahead i.e. (?<=.+). What's the difference here?
A: The limitation mentioned in an earlier movie referred only to positive lookbehind and negative lookbehind. I was able to use the one or more times (+) metacharacter in the positive lookahead portion of the expression because that limitation doesn't affect either positive or negative lookahead. It's only when looking backward that GREP ignores the repeat metacharacters.
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 4s
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1. GREP Basics
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What is GREP?1m 53s
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2. Basic Metacharacters
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Escaping out metacharacters2m 49s
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Building with wild cards9m 9s
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Specifying locations7m 4s
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3. Advanced Metacharacters
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Creating "or" conditions5m 24s
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Building subexpressions5m 52s
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4. GREP Styles
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Describing inconsistent text6m 59s
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5. GREP Find/Change
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Understanding queries8m 19s
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Cleaning up text with GREP2m 45s
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6. A Practical Project with Advanced Find/Change and GREP
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Conclusion
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Goodbye27s
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