GREP to find text between codes, italicize, remove codes

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December 3, 2021
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I had a GREP search that was lost in an upgrade, and after an hour trying to reconstruct it, I've decided to approach the geniuses. I get plain text documents that come in with text that should italicized placed between bracketed codes thus:

This Text Should Be Italic

I want to italicize it and drop the codes thus:

This Text Should Be Italic

Simple enough for someone, unlike myself, who knows what she's doing. Much obliged to anyone who can help!

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Correct answer brian_p_dts

Put a ? after the +. GREP is greedy by default. The ? limits that greediness.

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uniq1

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as a result
(?<=)(.+?)(?=)

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Rob the SlobAuthor

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Thanks, Mehmet. The question mark did it.

Rob

Peter Spier

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()(.+)()

change to $2 and add the italic formatting

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Rob the SlobAuthor

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Thanks so much! Almost there!

This works for the first find, Peter. But then, for some reason, the entire paragraph following is selected. As it happens that ¶ begins (after a quotation mark) with a coded phrase, and another shows up at the very end. See attached. Any ideas on why this would happen?

brian_p_dts

Correct answer

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Put a ? after the +. GREP is greedy by default. The ? limits that greediness.

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