GREP expression for a string followed by digits

[@mj]

Hi,

I''m cleaning up  a manual TOC.

What would the GREP expression be for the following

Topic 1...................10

Topic 2.............................12

Final result needs to look like this

Topic 1

Topic 2

tia

[Manan Joshi]

Hi There,

Try the following

Find what

(Topic\s+\d+).+

Replace with

$1

-Manan

[Jongware · Accepted solution]

If you want to remove those full stops and digits at the end, use this:

\.+\d+$

and replace with nothing. This will not affect any text and/or formatting at the start of each line.

[@mj]

Thanks everybody,

@_Jongware, This almost works perfectly.

I noticed that the . is followed by a space. My bad, sorry.

So the text is Topic. . . . 123

I've tried \.\s+\d+$ but it only takes away the last . \d\d

This works, but I lose the paragraph break a the end \.\s+\d+ 

tia

[pixxxelschubser]

Please show a screenshot of the table of contents of your InDesign file with 'show hidden characters'.

One shot into darkness:

Are your "points" real points?

Or only a tab with fill characters?

If this is the case:

\t\d+$

replace with

nothing

should do the job.

[Uniqued]

[\h\.]\d+

[pixxxelschubser]

My crystal ball isn't clean enough.

Again (to quickly find a final solution):

@pixxxel_schubser wrote: "… Please show a screenshot of the table of contents of your InDesign file with 'show hidden characters' …"

for example:

\h(\.\h)+\d+

 

[pixxxelschubser]

?

@master_mo, do you need further assistance?