Finding last characters with grep

I am lousy with grep and didn't find the solution with google, so let's ask here (help me out, please...)
I need to find last 7 characters of a paragraph and assign a character style "no break" to it. I know everything else, but what's the string to find the 7 last characters (incl. white spaces, digits and letters).
Thanks in advance.

try searching for .{7}$

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Hi Marcos,
If you want the script to create character styles: Bold , Italic, Bold Italic, etc, and replace local formatting with these styles, use scripts in post #3.
But if you want find and change words, or/and replace local formatting with styles defined by you, use FindChangeByList script.
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Last edited by thelastknowngod (2011-11-28 22:14:33)

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but...
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Peter, the problem is not in the replacement word or looping through that array backwards or forwards. The problem is finding a word with an accented character using the GREP mode.
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