GREP to change text after phrase into bold character style

[Spenno]

Good afternoon InDesign wizards. I'm not great with GREP but have been lucky enough to find a few corkers on here that have helped me considerably in my catalogue automation!

Would anyone be able to help with this one - I have a paragraph style and would like a GREP that turns everything that follows a particular phrase into my bold character style, until the end of the paragraph?

The phrase in question is a space followed by a glyph I use (arrow) then another space. According to my Find and Replace window it's ' ~a '. Many thanks folks.

[emmanuels33178323]

In InDesign grep the '~a' sign represents an anchored object so your glyph may be an imported image.

For this, I would use the expression '^ ~a \K.+' as a search in the Grep style window in the paragraph style and apply your Bold character Style.

[FRIdNGE]

Grep Style:

(?s)^\h~a\h\K.+

"bold" char style

(^/)  The Jedi

[Spenno]

Thank you .... sorry this doesn't work, all text is still regular weight.

[Spenno]

Thanks, this GREP doesn't seem to work, my paragraph is still regular text. You're right there is a space either side of the anchored object which in this case is an outlined arrow glyph.

[FRIdNGE]

Could you post an indd test file?

(^/)

[FRIdNGE · Accepted solution]

We suppose the space-anchoring-space is at the beginning of the para. If not, this will be relevant:

\h~a\h\K.+

(^/)

[Spenno]

Perfect - this one works. Much appreciated!

[jmlevy · Accepted solution]

Did you try to use a simple nested style?

[Spenno]

Thanks - perfect.