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I've always had a question to ask. I finally have a chance today . Regular selective substitution?

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March 13, 2022
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I want to find "áéíóú" with regular grep and replace it with the corresponding "aeiou".

that is

á=>a

é=>e

í=>i

ó=>o

ú=>u

Do I need to do it five times?

I seem to have seen someone who can do it all at once.

Find: [áéíóú]

Replace: I don't know how to write here

Thank you~

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Correct answer Peter Spier

I lke Peter Kahrel's script better: https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/grep_query_manager.html

It let's you save any query for later use and select from all the saved queries so you don't need to constantl;y rewrite the list.

Joel Cherney

Community Expert

There's a script that is installed by default with InDesign called "FindChangeByList". It does exactly what you want; it lets you stack GREP queries, so you can do five at once.

Peter Spier

Correct answer

Community Expert

I lke Peter Kahrel's script better: https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/grep_query_manager.html

It let's you save any query for later use and select from all the saved queries so you don't need to constantl;y rewrite the list.

Joel Cherney

Community Expert

1000x thanks, Peter! That is miles better than FindChangeByList. Also much better than my own folder-full-of-text-files with names like AllChineseGreps2019.txt.

brian_p_dts

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Find: (á|é|í|ó|ú)

Change: $1

$1 represents a variable of the content found within the first parentheses. The pipe character means "or".

brian_p_dts

Community Expert

Obviously written without sufficient coffee. This would not work. Use find change by list as Joel suggests.

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