GREP code help - change parentheses into brackets

[martinl1234]

Hi,

I work with InDesign for a while, but I am not very familiar with the coding features. I am struggling with wich seems a simple issue.

What I would like to do is:

change (9) into [9]

In the text body - change any numbers that are in parentheses into numbers in brackets.

In GREP, I can find all such occurences in text with simple code \(\d\), but I do not know what to put into the Change to: field.

I know it might be silly easy, but I just don't know and will be grateful for any help.

Thanks in advance.

Martin L.

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

Hi Martin,

Try the following

FindWhat :-  \((\d+)\)

Change To :- [$1]

-Manan

[martinl1234]

Hi Manan,

that works just fine, thank you very much.

What is the difference in that FindWhat query you used, because when I was using that mine \(\d\) and used [$1] in ChangeTo, it only put [$1] into text body as a replacement.

[Manan Joshi]

Hi Martin,

In your FindWhat query you were not creating a capturing group so there was no group associated with $1, hence it was replaced literally. In my query i create a capturing group by enclosing the number part within () this would set $1, which would correspond with the number part of the search result.

Hope this made sense

-Manan

[martinl1234]

ok, it makes sense, yes.

Thank you again, have a good day.

m.