GREP code

[thaero17058]

Hello

Are there any GREP code find words located at the beginning of baselines ( at the beginning of lines not the beginning of paragraph ) .

[Jongware]

No. GREP is not aware of individual lines.

To do something with lines, you need a script.

[thaero17058 · Accepted solution]

Thank you

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Hi,

Only by curiosity, what do you wanna do?

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[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Aha! Now moderators can mark as correct all marks of politeness! Cool!

… [just immediately for comment and explanations later] It can be done with Grep, without script, in 1 click!

Of course, hyphenation prohibited! 

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[thaero17058]

Hi

This is example : i want the GREP to find the word ( بن ) in this Arabic text if this word located at the beginning of line ( not beginning of paragraph )>>>> them i may replace the text or apply a character style on it ...  :

I know how to make a word boundary in GREP but i do not find GREP code to find this word at the beginning of lines .

I know  that : script can do this but , are there GREP code to do this .

[Zaid Al Hilali]

I would use Find Text not GREP in this case to find بن where ever it may be, and apply a character style right from the Change format section.

[thaero17058]

Hi

But i want to change word ( بن ) only if it's at the beginning of line ....

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

… So, let's go! 

Deal:

Let's find my name "Obi-wan Kenobi" [ "Ben", for friends! … ] ONLY if at the beginning of a line and let's apply "Obi-wan Kenobi CharStyle" to it!

As I said [post#4] … with Grep, without script and in 1 click! 

In the text, we have 8 mentions! To make it more visible for you, I've applied to my name a condition "Obi-wan Kenobi Condition" (blue underlining).

… But we only want the 4 ones on the left side!

To play this game, we need to play with "lines"!

I totally agree with Jongware! It's not the play area of Grep! … But, all kids love to play in sandboxes! 

The trick is to "get lines"!

… So, just 2 simple regex:

And a Multi-Find/change* set:

[ * Great thanks to our friend Martinho da Gloria for this awesome plugin!  ]

Done!

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[Zaid Al Hilali]

Amazing Obi-wan, a real Jedi master you are!

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Pour les "grognons"! 

app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;    
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "Obi-wan Kenobi";
myFound = app.activeDocument.findGrep();
var F = myFound.length,  s = String("Obi-wan Kenobi").length;
for ( var f = 0; f < F; f++ )  if ( myFound.contents == myFound.lines[0].characters.itemByRange(0, s-1).contents )  myFound.appliedCharacterStyle = "Obi-wan Kenobi CharStyle";
app.findGrepPreferences = null;

Version courte !

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[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Pour les "très-grognons, qui chercheraient seulement le premier mot de chaque ligne"! 

var myWords = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().lines.everyItem().words[0].getElements(),  W = myWords.length;
for ( var w = 0; w < W; w++ ) myWords.appliedCharacterStyle = "Red";

Version bikini !

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