Using grep to delete text?

[noob1212121]

How can I use grep to delete [pg xxx] where the xxx can be any length of a number or roman number (xi)? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, Andras

[FRIdNGE]

\[pg\h[\dvxi]+\]

[noob1212121]

Thanks, do I use this with the Find/replace [grep] function? Because it does not seem to work.....

[FRIdNGE]

Find this and Replace by nothing.

[noob1212121]

It won't find [pg xxx]

[FRIdNGE]

It will! …

[FRIdNGE]

… of course like here:  "… thanks to remove [pg 666] in the text! …"

[hammer0909]

I don't know what this means.

[FRIdNGE]

It’s what we call an example! ...

[hammer0909]

It should. Make sure your GREP expression didn't get messed up when you copied and pasted. Michels solution works.

[Barb Binder]

Andras:

Is this a text string, or are you searching for the page number variable (added via Type > Insert Special Character > Markers > Current Page number? Are your Roman numerals lowercase as you showed in your example above? Do they include other Roman numerals like l, c, d and m?

The string provided does match what you asked for: [pg ] with digits and the lowercase Roman numerals v, x and i.

~Barb

[noob1212121]

It does not work for me! The string is [pg xxx] as xxx=either numbers or lower case roman numerals. The find gets nothing! What am I doing wrong? All it is is the find and using grep.

[Barb Binder]

Did you click the GREP tab? It worked fine for me.

~Barb

[hammer0909]

Also make sure that the scope of your search is set to something other than selection.

[jane-e]

Show your Find/Change dialog — maybe we can spot the error.

[noob1212121]

YAY ! It worked on [pg 4xx] only, it won't find [pg 00x] at all...

[FRIdNGE]

+ Invisible Chars … and Zoom on "[pg 004]"!

[vinny38 · Accepted solution]

Two thoughts:

- what version of Indesign? could be related to the known CC2019 Grep bug

see GREP search fails to find all the matching instances in long InDesign documents for the fix

- Looks like cross-references to me... I second Michel : screenshot with "Invisible Chars … and Zoom on "[pg 004]"!" please ^^

[noob1212121]

I have downloaded and found the CopyPlugin.app but it is a folder and I cannot run it. I hav e also looked at special characters but the file is clean!

[Jongware]

noob1212121  wrote

I have downloaded and found the CopyPlugin.app but it is a folder and I cannot run it.

That is obviously the plugin for Mac OS X. You may not be aware of this, but you are working on Windows. Try again but make sure ti choose your own OS this time.

[winterm]

Jongware  wrote

You may not be aware of this, but you are working on Windows.

[noob1212121]

IT WORKED! That was the bug! It worked for small sample files but not of the 3 volumes of Schopenhauer's The World As Will And Idea.

Thank you ALL who helped and made it possible not to tear my hair out with mundane editing...

I appreciate it wholeheartedly!