[ Branched ] Group consecutive numbers

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April 15, 2021
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Hi there. My problem is pretty different. I need to find any range of consecutive numbers and replacing the no between first and last with a dash.

E.g.: Find: 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 etc. and replace with 12-16.

Is this possible? Thanks.

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Correct answer pixxxelschubser

Search for groupSequentiellNum.jsx or groupSequentiellNum2.jsx by the German script writer Martin Fischer.

These scripts replace:
Content 1 ........ 1, 2
Contents 2 ........ 4, 5, 6
Contents 3 ........ 7, 8, 9, 10

in (variant 1):
Contents 1 ........ 1-2
Contents 2 ........ 4-6
Contents 3 ........ 7-10

or in (variant 2):

1, 2, 11, 12, 13, 21, 22, 23, 24, 31-32, 41-43, 51-54  -->  1f., 5, 11ff., 21ff., 31f., 41ff., 51ff.

pixxxelschubser

Correct answer

Community Expert

Search for groupSequentiellNum.jsx or groupSequentiellNum2.jsx by the German script writer Martin Fischer.

These scripts replace:
Content 1 ........ 1, 2
Contents 2 ........ 4, 5, 6
Contents 3 ........ 7, 8, 9, 10

in (variant 1):
Contents 1 ........ 1-2
Contents 2 ........ 4-6
Contents 3 ........ 7-10

or in (variant 2):

1, 2, 11, 12, 13, 21, 22, 23, 24, 31-32, 41-43, 51-54  -->  1f., 5, 11ff., 21ff., 31f., 41ff., 51ff.

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cristianr24995998Author

Participant

Thanks a lot. This was of real help.

pixxxelschubser

Community Expert

Do you need the replacement for parts of the text?
Or for a table of contents? (There are already (free) scripts for this.)
Or ...

Please give a more detailed description.

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cristianr24995998Author

Participant

It is about the number of pages generated by the Index. Lots of them are consecutive numbers, such as 760, 761, 762, 763, 764 - and I wish to replace them with 760-764. Thanks. I found a script of Peter Kahrel (Index_update, as I remember), but doesn't work. It just deletes the whole paragraph.

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

I'm not a serial GREPer but I came up with this

(\d+), \d.+, (\d+)

$1-$2

It's very specific, so might not catch all cases.

For example on 1,2,3,4,5