This uses ‘Positive Lookbehind’ and ‘Positive Lookahead’įind a dollar sign followed by one digit, a period, and two digits.

Unfortunately, it fails on 355/113 (which happens to be a reasonably good approximation of ?, proving that nothing is perfect).įind any kind of a, no matter the accent, including a, á, à, ä, etc.įind st, rd, or th ordinals (such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd) that follow a digit?in order to apply superscript to just the ordinal (not the digit).įind any text inside parentheses, but not including the parentheses. Robust fraction grep: Will find fractions, but leave out dates such as 6/98, 9/11, or. or )įind any four digits (the curly brace expression is not found in the InDesign menu) Milk Chocolate, milk chocolate, milk Chocolate, Milk chocolateĬolor or colour (the ? means the previous character or expression may or may not be there)Īny string of letters that starts with c and ends with e, such as chocolate, Chocolate, case, coarse, etc.Īny whole word that begins with c and ends with eĮxactly the same as above, but using for ‘word boundary’ Always look for that flyout menu! Expressing Or (Milk|Dark) Chocolate Let’s focus the comments below on solutions, rather than questions.Īnd remember: you don’t need to memorize all these codes. Note: Please don’t use the comments below to ask “what’s the grep code for…”? Instead, use our forums to ask those kinds of questions. Or, if I think of new ones, I’ll just update this table from time to time. If it’s really helpful, I may steal it and add it to the table in this blog post. Then, if you have a grep code you want to share with others, feel free to add it to the comments below. You may need to tweak it a little, or combine some of these to achieve your task. But you don’t always have to figure out all the grep codes yourself! Use the table below to find a grep expression that is close to what you’re looking for. It shows up in several places in InDesign, notably the Find/Change dialog box and the GREP Styles feature. GREP is an incredibly powerful technology for finding and replacing text.

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