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The same regular expression can be found, but why the GREP in the paragraph style cannot be recogniz

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The same regular expression can be found, but why the GREP in the paragraph style cannot be recognized

\w\w\W*$

What's incredible for this expression?

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dubloveCorrect answer

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Thanks.
\h is a good thing, I haven't noticed before.

Also \H is good thing.

Peter Spier

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Instead of \W you might want to try using the wild cards for what you are really trying to find, perhaps [[:punct:]] and \h to find horizontal whitespaces but not end of paragraph, new line or column/page breaks.

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dubloveAuthorCorrect answer

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Thanks.
\h is a good thing, I haven't noticed before.

Also \H is good thing.

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Robert at ID-Tasker

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Try

\w\w\w*$

All three "w" should be small caps.

"\W" isn't a correct meta - so you get only two letter results - "*" means "zero or more".

https://www.indiscripts.com/blog/public/data/idcs4-special-characters/en_InDesignCS4-CS5-SpecialChars.pdf

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dubloveAuthor

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You don't understand what I mean
\w refers to any character (excluding space and punctuation)
\W contains space and punctuation.
They are different

I mean:
\w\w\W*$ can find the content, but it seems that it does not work in the paragraph style GREP.

Of course, no wrap is difference in Chinese and English.

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James Gifford—NitroPress

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I'm not sure where you're getting the information, but InDesign's implementation of GREP uses \W as the opposite of \w — any "non word" character instead of "any word character." It excludes letters and "word" punctuation like underscores.

\w — a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and underscore.
\W — any character NOT in the above list.

The wildcard for "any character" is a period, full stop - "."

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