GREP style

[Steve Kelly]

Hi, can anyone help with the following please, I've tried quite a few solutions to this that i've found online but can't get any of them to work.

I basically need to apply some standard italic styling to some text. it comes to me as below.

"some text and some more text <i>Im a name so i need italicising<i> and then <i>so am I<i>, is this possible?

I want to italicise the text that is within the "<i>" and  "<i>" and then remove all instances of the "<i>" in one script. Stuck and frustrated.

Its probably very basic, so sorry for the inane question.

[winterm · Accepted solution]

In GREP tab:

find (<i>)([^<]+)(<i>)

change to $2

in Change Format field define your italic style.

[BEGINNER_X]

Hi,

Make ensure the "italic" character style need to be available in the document.

Try the below code,

app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "<i>(.+)<i>"
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "$1";
app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = "italic";
app.activeDocument.changeGrep();

Regards

Siraj

[winterm]

"GREP is greedy". <i>(.+)<i> won't work if you have more than one occurence of <i>some text<i> in a paragraph...

[Steve Kelly]

Brilliant, thanks! worked exactly as I needed!

[winterm]

You're welcome.