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Learning the undocumented location metacharacters

Learning the undocumented location metacharacters: Learning GREP with InDesign
Learning the undocumented location metacharacters: Learning GREP with InDesign

Join for an in-depth discussion in this video Learning the undocumented location metacharacters, part of Learning GREP with InDesign.

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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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