InDesign GREP Style Help

[shayla.wakemtg]

I've used GREP styles on and off, but I struggle to wrap my head around it and I can't find an answer that works for what I'm trying to accomplish...

The document I'm working with has a list of businesses setup like this:

Business Name (em space) Address (em) Phone Number (em) URL (em) Facebook URL (em) Instagram URL (paragraph break)

I use a nested style to make the Business Name bold ("up to 1 em space") and then I have a GREP style to make the URL bold. It works... but it will also bold characters in the Facebook and Insta URLs. I want the style to just apply to the URL and leave the Facebook and Insta alone. 

This is my GREP style as it is:

[\l\u\d.]+(.com|.ca)

So anytime the letters "ca" or "com" show up in a Facebook or Insta URL it bolds them as well, plus any letters/digits preceding that.

With each business listing there is an ! in the text right before the Facebook URL—I use another GREP style to recognize the exclamation point and convert it to the typeface Social Shapes and give me a nice little Facebook icon. I've tried to figure out how to stop the GREP match when it encounters an exclamation mark, but this is beyond my skillset. I have no idea how else to make this work...

Can anyone help? TIA

[SJRiegel]

It worked for me on my sample when I added a positive look-behind with four digits together followed by an em space.

(?<=\d{4} )[\l\u\d.]+(.com|.ca)

 This picked up only the URL directly following the phone number. 

(if the phone numbers has a different format, or sometimes includes an extension, this code would need to change)

[SJRiegel · Accepted solution]

I could not edit my reply, but here is the way to use the exclamation mark as end indicator. It sets an em space followed by a exclamation as a positive lookahead, so that the code only picks up urls followed by an em space and an exclamation.

[\l\u\d.]+(.com|.ca)(?= \!)

[shayla.wakemtg]

Thank you, this worked the best and captured almost every single URL and left all the Facebook and Instagrams alone!

[pixxxelschubser]

Doesn't my grep work for you?

From experience, the other grep does not find many URL.

[pixxxelschubser]

How about

~m\K\S+\.c(a|om)(?=~m\!)