GREP to find number in table following asterisks and make bold

[SRS77]

I'm trying to understand GREP and need to find all numbers that follow an astricks "*" within all tables in my document.  There may be numbers that have a space between the astricks  like "* 199" or the astricks may be right next to the number "*199".  The number can be any number of digits and some with decimals.  Thanks!

[SRS77]

I think I solved this on my own.  It's very basic GREP but you have to start somewhere!  So if it helps anyone else here is what I came up with ...

For the instances that it is a number after an asterisks with no space between the asterisks and number I used this...

(?<=\*)\d*

I added a second GREP for the instances that have a space between the astericks ...

(?<=\*\s)\d*

I'm sure there is a way to do this with one GREP but I have not gotten that far yet!  

Since the aterisks is also part of the GREP language you must add a "\" before it so it does not think you are writing more grep code.  If you symbol is something other than an asterisk, you would just replace the \* with whatever it is, for example of your number was preceded with a dollar sign you would use \$.

Hope this helps another newbie!

Cheers

[Willi Adelberger]

Make a single GREP (?<=\*\s?)\d*

You can make a GREP style. Or you can find and replace, but style is better here.

[SRS77]

Thanks Willi!  I knew there was a way and now I know.  Appreciated.