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SuzzyFlamingo
SuzzyFlamingo
Inspiring
September 2, 2025
Question

Help with grep

  • September 2, 2025
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I asked in another post about uncompiling a binary javascript and was informed not to go down that path...

OK. I accept that. I have found a way to add the fuctionality that i need. I think using grep. But i know more about Quantem mechanics than i know about GREP so i am going to need help here also.

here it is:

Search for any text formatted with par style "sty1". this string we will call (for now) "txt1"

replace that string with "I love to eat" && txt1

Format that entire string with par style "sty2"

Format the last word of the new string as bold.

 

Can this be done?

 

I am so appreciative to those who help me here!

 

SF

1 reply

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Manan JoshiCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 2, 2025

Can be done, do you want to do this via script or via the UI interface?

I have a few questions. What would be the final text?

"I love to eat" && txt1

Do you mean that we use && and then the text that was searched intially? So would that mean applying the bold character style to the intial search string, i.e. txt1

-Manan

-Manan
SuzzyFlamingo
SuzzyFlamingoAuthor
Inspiring
September 2, 2025

I was using those symbols from my Pascal days. So if it found "walnuts" it would replace it with "I love to eat wallnuts" and then formatting "walnuts" as bold. Sorry for the confussion.

If a script could do this all in one shot, that would be the best way, right?

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Manan JoshiCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 2, 2025

I tried doing it via Grep searc/replace directly. I also added a grep style to "sty2" to apply a character style named Bold to the last word. See the screenshots below. If this works for you we won't need the script

-Manan

-Manan
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