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Started by Dave_Saunders
Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:17
FindChangeByList Sample Error
Author: Dave_Saunders
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:17
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:17
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There are some errors in the third and sixth sample greps included in the FindChangeByList.txt file that came bundled with CS4 (and also CS3, so perhaps these aren't very important errors). In both cases, the descriptions are wrong, each having been copied from the previous entry but not edited properly. But more importantly:
Apply either of these and the paragraph after the return will take on the paragraph style of the paragraph before the return.
To fix the problems change them to:
grep {findWhat:" $"} {changeTo:""} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Find all instances of a space at the end of a paragraph and delete it.
grep {findWhat:"\t$"} {changeTo:""} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Find all instances of a tab character at the end of a paragraph and delete it.
However, what prompts me to actually post this is that I am mystified why the two similar entries that immediately precede these two don't have the same problem. In the UI, if you select a return and the space or tab that immediately follows it and hit return, you do get the problem of the styles changing. But it doesn't happen with these greps.
Puzzled in New Jersey.
Dave
Re: FindChangeByList Sample Error
Author: Peter Kahrel
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:55
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:55
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Though it probably has nothing to do with the problem you report, GREP doesn't have an option "wholeWord". Text does. What your two cases have in common is that when in the search pair \r follows, the previous paragraph takes on \r's paragraph style, but when \r is first in the pair, it doesn't. This still doesn't explain anything! Peter
Re: FindChangeByList Sample Error
Author: Dave_Saunders
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:27
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:27
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Ah thanks for pointing out the wholeword thing. More red for the slide! Still, it makes a point I was wondering about how to fit in: if you try to read a non-existing property, you get an error, but if you write to one it just makes a new one for you. Dave
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