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how to find last word(<=8 characters) of each paragraph?

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August 19, 2022
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I need to find last word of each paragraph. Also check lastword is <= 8 characters only( include special character, dot and numbers). Find and apply no break condition.

for example.

Common (may affect up to 1 in 10 pat):
- Severe kidney failure (this will be ascertained by your doctor through some specific blood test)
- Low levels of calcium in the blood.
Uncommon (may affect up to 1 in 100 patients):
how many mg of each tablet is in a bottle?
Each tablet contains 100 mg.
If you enter number of paragraphs or lines higher than 200 –the function will work but will produce only 200 paragraphs (10).

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Correct answer Peter Spier

Peter Kahrel's code above findes the last word of a paragraph only if it contains 1 to 8 characters, but it will include closing punctuation in the count.

If you don't want to include closing punctuation in the character count of the last word I would add [[:punct:]]* which will find any punctuation if it exists (* is the zero or more times match), and maybe add \s* as well in case the original text has extraneous trailing whitespace, so the final code would look like

\s\K\S{1,8}[[:punct:]]*\s*$

This would still fail if there is whitespace before any ending punctuation.

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Peter Kahrel

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Sorry, Eugene, you're right: what Arunkumar is after is applying no break to paragraph-final words of 8 characters or fewer and the preceding word. If that's the case, this would do:

.\s\S{1,8}$   // In a GREP style
.\\s\\S{1,8}$ // In a script

In other words, any character followed by a space followed by 8 non-space characters, at paragraph-end.

Peter Spier

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Peter, I think that this should be modified with the additions I suggested above, particularly for the possibility of trailing white space unless Arunkumar25715058ufpl has already run a cleanup script to correct for that.

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Peter Kahrel

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Trailing white space -- ugh. In that case, as indeed in your example, add \s* before the $

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Peter Kahrel

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But, Eugene, they're looking for last single words that are fewer than 8 characters.

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Eugene Tyson

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I was going by the example in the 2nd post. Which is different to last 8 characters.

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Arunkumar25715058ufplAuthor

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Hi Eugene,

I tried your suggestion. but it is not working. Please refer the below screenshot. I am using Adobe InDesign 2020.

Finally I find this \s\H+[.\w\d\l\u]+\W*?$ - it is working but it is finds last word in all para. how to add 8 character only in this script?

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Eugene Tyson

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This will find the last two words of a paragraph

\<(\s?(\S+)){2}$

You can then apply the no break.

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Eugene Tyson

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You can then make it smarter and have digits never be on a end of line by themselves

screen.zip

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Peter Kahrel

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Look for

\s\K\S{1,8}$

and apply no-break (set it in the Change format panel).

P.

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Arunkumar25715058ufplAuthor

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Hi Peter,

I tried your suggestion, but it is not working. I attached my xml, indesign file and javascript code for your reference. Also, I tried manually but it is also not working.

var doc = app.activeDocument; 


function testing(doc){
	//Clear the find/change text preferences.
	app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
	app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;

	//Set the GREP find options (adjust to taste)
	app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeFootnotes = true;
	app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeHiddenLayers = true;
	app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = true;
	app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = true;
	app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeMasterPages = true;

	//Look for the pattern and change to
	app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\s\K\S{1,8}$";
	var myFoundItems = app.activeDocument.findGrep();
	for(var n=0;n<myFoundItems.length;n++)
	{		
		var getContent = myFoundItems[n].contents;
		alert(getContent);
		app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = getContent;
		app.changeGrepPreferences.noBreak = true;
		app.activeDocument.changeGrep();
		app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
	}
	//Clear the find/change text preferences.
	app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
	//app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
}

testing(doc);

testing.xml

testing.zip