GREP to Find Numbers at End of Story
I want use GREP to do a find to locate any six digit number or just the numeral zero at the end of each story in my InDesign 4 documents.
So far, I have ben able io identify six digit numbers by searching for the following \d{6} But when I add the end of story location marker, \z\d{6}, no results are returned.
What do I need to do to:
1. get the expression to search for the number at the end of the story
2. amend my expression so that it finds either a six digit number or the numeral zero
Any help on this would be appreciated
kmc27 wrote:
In the InDesign document here isn't the six digit number in the first example and the zero in the second example at the end of the story? Wouldn't \z find these numbers?
No, to both questions.
\Z is a location marker, and it only matches the position "end of story". You have a hard return between the digits and the location 'end of story'.
This will work in your example document:
(\d{6}|0)\r\Z
and it would be wise, in your case, to mark the hard returns as 'optional':
(\d{6}|0)\r*\Z
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