Grep help

[danielw42205661]

I have a document with a lot of "Motion X" in it, and am trying to do a big find and replace.

I dont have a good handle on grep and have done the expression "Motion\s\d*" which does work, but it is also including text such as "Motion carried / lost". Example below.

I just want to restrict it to finding the word "Motion", then a space and then a number after it (could be 1 to 3 digits). 

I did play around with using square brackets but that didn't seem to help. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

[Eugene Tyson]

Are you trying to replace the word Motion?

Motion\s\d+?

If you want to replace just the word Motion

Motion(\s\d+?)

Change to

New Word$1

Does it ever have Motion 1.01 (with decimals)?

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Hi @danielw42205661 ,

the * od d  means zero or more digits.

You could try also this:

Motion\s\d{1,}

Which means one or more digits in a row. You could restrict the maximum number of digits in a row if you add a second number after the comma. Or you could change the first number to 2 if you want to find only a minimum of two digits in a row.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

[Eugene Tyson]

\d{1,}

By @Laubender

That is such an awesome GREP! 

[danielw42205661]

Thanks! Worked a treat.