How to make a 'horizontal list'

[SinSinSinSin]

Hi there,

I have a lot of text files (jotted down recipes) with lists formated like this:

• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/2 cup white sugar

and this:

3 tablespoons all-purpose flour, 1/4 cup water, 1/2 cup white sugar

I'd like to convert both of them in the same style:

3 tablespoons all-purpose flour - 1/4 cup water - 1/2 cup white sugar

So in short; is there a quick way to make a paragraph style that converts bulleted lists into a horizontal list and replace comma's with "-" sign.

Thanks in advance!

[Steve Werner]

It probably would require either GREP or a script.

[Erica Gamet]

Steve is right that a GREP expression could probably help. If you know the text is always a comma followed by a digit, you could find

(\l)(, )(\d)

and replace with

$1~=$3

I replaced with an en dash...you'll have to change ~= to dash or em dash or whatever you want to replace it with.

On the bulleted list, is there a paragraph style applied to the listing?