GREP cannot find an expression right in front of its face.

[Tycho5ive]

Going a little nuts here, wondering what I'm doing wrong. Grep can't find any part of the line starting with 'SL' shown in the first picture. Not even if I copy the line exactly and paste it into the Find What field. It refuses to even find an individual letter, as if the entire line is locked off to Find/Change somehow? Except, using regular text Find/Change works fine. However, if I paste the line of text into a new document, GREP finds it fine. No, this is not on a master page. Thanks in advance for the help, kinda hoping (but also afraid) it'll be a 'duh' answer!

[vinny38 · Accepted solution]

Duh!

Probably related to the "Grep and long docs" known bug...

see GREP search fails to find all the matching instances in long InDesign documents

[Tycho5ive]

Thanks! This did it. Curiously this document is a good bit shorter than most I usually work with but must have been enough to trigger the bug. Thanks for the answer!