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December 9, 2018
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GREP search help: digit+space changed to digit+tab

  • December 9, 2018
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Hi all, sorry for what I am sure is but one of many GREP questions.

Right now I have end notes that, in the start of each paragraph, begin:

1.[space]

And I'd like to change them all to

1.[tab]

This must happen only at the beginning of each paragraph and that's kind of the hard part since the above construction takes place in various places in each paragraph.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Correct answer winterm

In Find/Change dialog GREP tab:

Find what: ^\d+\.\K\h

Change to: \t

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winterm
winterm
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December 9, 2018

You can think about \K as a some kind of a Positive Lookbehind, and \h stands for any horizontal whitespace.

winterm
wintermCorrect answer
Legend
December 9, 2018

In Find/Change dialog GREP tab:

Find what: ^\d+\.\K\h

Change to: \t

    Jongware
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    JongwareCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 9, 2018

    That ought to work – but, no explanation? 

    winterm
    winterm
    Legend
    December 9, 2018

    Ha! Couldn’t it be a part of OP’s homework?

    Here’s a decent start: find and install a bit outdated but still excellent script What the GREP by Jongware (I bet you know that guy ), and you’ll find most explanations for this and many other codes. Well, except some relatively new…

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