Using index marker with GREP negative lookbehind

[ali u]

I want to find a character that does not have an index marker behind it, is this possible with GREP? I tried this but it didn't work:

(?<!~I)a

[Eugene Tyson]

Try escaping the tilde - with '\~'

it might be trying to find a literal tilde

so maybe \~I works better

[Eugene Tyson]

Now that I've tried it - it's not working. No idea why.

[ali u]

I tried it but didn't work, and if I just search "(?=~I)" it finds indeks markers without escaping

[FRIdNGE]

What do you try to play?

(^/)  The Jedi

[ali u]

I need to add a number of index entries, all of which start with a certain parenthesis. After adding most of them, I want to check if I missed any. Therefore, I'm using a negative lookbehind in grep to verify if there are any parentheses without an index marker preceding them.

[FRIdNGE]

Could you post a screenshot and tell us what "parenthesis" you talk about?

(^/)

[ali u]

sure, they are FD3F ornate right paranthesis

[FRIdNGE]

OK! for the sample I've used a simple parenthesis (change it for your use)

Create a condition and play these 2 simple regex:

1/ "Change All":

This will mark all the parentheses preceded by an Index Maker.

2/ Search one by one:

This will find all the parentheses that are not marked! Those you want to check!

Finally, trash the condition.

(^/)

[ali u]

Thanks, if we can't use index marker with negative lookbehind then this will have to do.

Thank you very much.