Grep expression with InDesign doesn't seem to work

My reg-ex fu is weak today: (I don't know what flavour of Regular Expression Indesign uses)

I'm trying to find any lowercase laters that follow a colon.

\:\s?[a-z]

Works fine here But that finds nothing in my design document.

Should match items in bold underline

Bananas: thats and that
Note: This
but: not that
Elephants: 1 or not
Annything:goes:

Any ideas?

Correct answer m1b

Hi @Ghoul Fool, Indesign uses PCRE flavoured regular expressions. In your case, how about this...

:\s?\K\l

- Mark

P.S. the \K symbol means Match Reset—discard everything matched so far and start again.

Correct answer

Community Expert

Hi @Ghoul Fool, Indesign uses PCRE flavoured regular expressions. In your case, how about this...

:\s?\K\l

- Mark

P.S. the \K symbol means Match Reset—discard everything matched so far and start again.

Inspiring

Thanks. That explains that! Don't know perl, me! 🙂

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