Adding commas in a column of numbers in FrameMaker with a regular expression

Right? I love regular expressions! They dramatically cut down on the time it takes to clean up files.

In addition to the resource that Stefan linked to, I also recommend checking out this book from regular forum contributor Peter Kahrel: Shop: InDesignSecrets. Yes, it is geared towards an InDesign user—and FrameMaker does not yet support GREP styles—but REGEX is REGEX and the information in this guide is invaluable. And the focus is on writing expressions that are specifically used to clean up documents for publishing.

And since Stefan is on this thread, I’m going to take a moment to remind him that I think it is really important that we add the ability to save our REGEX in a menu with descriptive names so that we can access them easily the next time we need them. FrameMaker does remember the last 10 expressions (10 for Find and 10 for Change) but when you perform additional find and change activities, they drop off the bottom of the list. I guess the bright side is that I’m getting much more efficient at writing the expressions that I need because I have to keep re-keying them in.  

~Barb