Grep help

[jakec88782761]

How would I get this GREP to find repeated words which may also be hyphenated?

\<([a-z|A-Z]+)\> \<\1\>

[karthikS]

Hi,

Please share the your requirement-screenshot or your code?

Thanks

KS

[Skemicle]

Are you doing this in scripting or in the find/change dialog box?? If scripting, all the backslashes need to be escaped. If not then it's fine; you just need to add a possibility of a hyphen -? between two sets of letters.

[Peter Kahrel · Accepted solution]

Don't use alternative inside character classes. Use whis to match words that can be hyphenated:

\b([-A-Za-z]+)\b

(\< and \> work in InDesign but not in JavaScript. \b works in both.)

Peter

[Skemicle]

pkahrel wrote:

(\< and \> work in InDesign but not in JavaScript. \b works in both.)

Can you provide an example?? I tried to recreate this but for me both cases work:

app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\<and\\b";
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "AND";
app.changeGrep();

Except when scripting without using Find/Change preferences.. Then neither worked:

if(app.selection[0].contents == "\bAND\b");
alert("YES");

[Peter Kahrel]

With 'JavaScript' I meant the JavaScript string functions, such as str = str.replace (/\b\w+\b/g, '')

P.