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Jay,

Some passages were rephrased to make them clearer. For instance, the difference between lazy operators and negative classes could do with some clarification. I also added some examples here and there, and described a new feature in CS4, GREP styles. Finally, I added a short section on how you can chain saved queries using very simple scripts. I didn't know that one when I wrote the CS3 edition -- jongware spotted it and mentioned it in this forum a while ago.

Something that didn't make it into the CS4 edition is that CS4 supports Unicode properties and sub-properties (of the form \p{..}, see Friedl, "Mastering Regurlar Expressions", pp. 122, 123). For example, there is a property \p{P} that matches punctuation. This one has several subproperties (\p{Pd} matches all kinds of dashes, \p{Po} captures opening punctuation, there are several others). All in all there are 37 Unicode properties.

They didn't make it into the CS4 edition because Adobe is sometimes a bit shy about telling us what new features they implement -- Unicode properties was one of them. I tried these in CS3, but forgot to do that in CS4. A correspondent in France pointed it out to me.

I've now put together an overview of these new properties at <http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/grep_mapper.html> There's a script there that generates selected Unicode ranges and lets you map any GREP wildcard on the selected range.

Peter