Help Me Write A GREP Expression?

I have a list of numbers formatted like:
(801234123412)
that should read:
80-1234-1234-12
I know it can be done, I just don't know how, and am short on time for learning.

Try this:
Find $(\d\d)(\d\d\d\d)(\d\d\d\d)(\d\d)$
Replace with $1$2$3$4
Bob

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hello,
pls can someone help me build a grep expression for a dictionary:
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hjtoku
yghmns
I need an expression that would find in each word where the underline starts, and put, lets say, an asterisk there:
abc*def
hjto*ku
ygh*mns
thank you in advance!

Underlines are a character attribute, not a glyph, so there's not a lot of complexity to this. To find underlined characters search for .+ and in the find format section set the basic character attributes to underlined. Understand that this will find underlined characters anywhere, even at the start of the word. If you don't want that it's a lot more complicated and I haven't figured it out myself, yet.
To add the asterisk change to *$0
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I know--KNOW--there's a way to do this, but my GREP expressions keep failing.
I want to add an em dash before any phrase that's in a paragraph style. So I obviously want the em dash to be in the location "beginning of paragraph." All my GREP searches keep failing. Can someone help?

Adobe's implementation of "beginning of paragraph" is a tiny bit off from standard GREP (which, in itself, is less a set of hard & fast rules, but more like "guidelines"). Yes -- you can search for beginning of paragraph using plain ^, but you cannot use it with a replace operation.
The trick is to give InDesign something to look for. Search for
^.
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~_$0
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Don't forget to put your paragraph style in the Find Formatting box.
This workaround works around the implementation failure, because you indeed want to add something to existing text. Unfortunately, another fairly standard GREP to look for empty paragraphs -- ^$ -- doesn't work, because then you have no place for a wildcard character ... (and yes, you can use a hard return \r instead of either first or last code, but then it won't work at beginning or end of story). It's one of those things I hope to see corrected with CS5.
[Edit] Ha! Peter beat me to it but he made a typo. Besides, my story is longer.

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I think I have found a Bug within the Write to Measurement express VI.   I have attached an example VI to help reproduce the error.
Here is a bit of history.. I have a data monitoring system which runs continuously. I have the write to measurement setup to create a new file every 12 hours. What I noticed is that even though a new file has been created, I still cannot access the old files until I stop the VI that has the Write to Measurement VI in it. I am trying to access the files via Diadem.
For this application, it is not practical to stop the Data Monitoring Main VI every time I need to look at the data.  The alternative that I found was to not use the Write to measurement express VI and use open/write/close TDMS vi's.   This is not an acceptable solution as the features programmed into the Write to measurement Express VI are need for my application.
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example code.vi ‏77 KB

Hello Mic,
Please understand that I can suggest a workaround, and I've tested it in your scenario and it seems to work OK, but I cannot guarantee this workaround for all possible use cases of this Express VI. It is for this reason that we generally don't like to recommend one-off modifications to VIs that ship with LabVIEW - they do not get tested with as wide a set of use cases as we do on VIs when we ship them. As such, I'm not going to just hand you a VI to replace in vi.lib, but I will show you a few edits you can make to work around this issue.
Open this VI: "[LabVIEW Install Dir]\vi.lib\express\express shared\ex_TDMS\ex_createorOpenTDMS.vi"
Open its diagram. Near the left there's a section that looks like this:
The current known bug is with the "Not A Number/Path/Refnum?" function on TDMS files, so you'll see the following changes in the below diagram, which hopefully you can make and try out in your use case. I would highly recommend making a backup copy of this VI before saving any changes!
Delete the "Not A Number/Path/Refnum?" function.
Connect the "new file?" input to a "Not" function, and wire the output of the "Not" to the case structure selector where "Not A Number/Path/Refnum?" was previously being used.
Delete the wire connecting the error out of the first inner case structure to the second inner case structure, and re-route the error wire around the first case structure.
Hopefully with these three instructions and comparing the shipping and workaround images you can successfully get up and running.
Message Edited by Jeff B on 03-01-2007 08:12 AM
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shipping.gif ‏5 KB
workaround.gif ‏6 KB

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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSE33E49F9-94CE-4043-AA51-4761408A63F4a.html #WS6F1E524C-8F74-4331-A813-33D08F983E94 is the official help page.
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GREP Expression Needed

I'm reposting this here, hoping some genius scripters will know more than the designers ---
I've scoured the websites and have been trying to figure out the correct GREP expression for what I'm trying to achieve, but to no avail, so alas I am posting this in hopes of ending my misery.
I want to add an italic character style to the names of Naval ships (USS xxx xxx) in my book. I want to italicize the name, but not the 'USS'. Any ideas?
Thanks a million.
~Laurie

Here you go (needed a break). Write the names in a text file, one name per line, and save it in the scripts folder using the name uss_names.txt. The first line in that file must be the name of the character style you want to use. If that style doesn't exist, the script creates it.
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How to close a write to file express VI

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I am using an Write to File express VI inside a subVI in LabVIEW 7.1. Since it is in a DAQ loop it is configured to create only one file even though it is called many times.
The problem I am having is that when the subVI itself is closed and reopened the express VI does not prompt to create a new file. Is there a way to get around this?
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dave,
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