[ Branched ] Group consecutive numbers

[cristianr24995998]

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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[Joely]

hi,

with GREP Styles/Find&Replace it should be possible, yes…

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/grep-to-find-a-range-of-numbers/m-p/9357941

PS: Please specify your «problem» inside the Titel and Content of your post.

[cristianr24995998]

Thank you, but your link leads to a different issue and doesn't get an answer to my question.

P.S. I'll try to edit the title of my post.

[Eugene Tyson]

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

[cristianr24995998]

Thanks for your effort, you are almost there, but I need to find only consecutive numbers. Your grep finds all the numbers in a row. 

[FRIdNGE]

You need The Force! (I mean scripting!)  😉

(^/)  The Jedi

[Eugene Tyson]

I don't think that's possible with GREP.

It might be able to be scripted - but that is specialist and where someone might do it off their own accord as a favour; it is specialist, so someone may have a fee in mind to create a script for you. 

Is that something you'd be interested in? 

The forum has some very good scripters.

[pixxxelschubser]

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.

[cristianr24995998]

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.

[pixxxelschubser · Accepted solution]

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.

[cristianr24995998]

Thanks a lot. This was of real help.