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Case-insensitive off
(?-i)
(?-i)apple Apple apple APPLE Apple apple APPLE
Multiline on
(?m)
(?m)^\w+
In this example, the expression
looks for one or more (+) word
characters (\w) at the
beginning of a line (^). The (?
m) expression allows all lines
within the found text to be
treated as separate lines.
(?m)^\w matches the
beginning of each paragraph.
(?-m)^\w matches only the
beginning of the story.
One Two Three Four Five Six
Seven Eight
One Two ThreeFour Five
SixSeven Eight
Multiline off
(?-m)
(?-m)^\w+ One Two Three Four Five Six
Seven Eight
One Two Three Four Five Six
Seven Eight
Single-line on
(?s)
(?s)c.a
The searches for any
character ( . ) between the
letters c and a. The (?s)
expression matches any
character, even if it falls on the
next line.
(.) matches anything other
than a paragraph return. (?s)(.)
matches anything, including
paragraph returns.
abc abc abc abc abc abcabc abc
Single-line off (?-s)c.a abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc
Repeat number of times
{ }
b{3} matches exactly 3 times
b(3,} matches at least 3 times
b{3,}? matches at least 3 times
(shortest match)
b{2,3} matches at least 2 times
and not more than 3
b{2,3}? matches at least 2
times and not more than 3
(shortest match)
abbc abbbc abbbbc abbbbbc abbc abbbc abbbbc abbbbbc
abbc abbbc abbbbc abbbbbc
abbc abbbc abbbbc abbbbbc
abbc abbbc abbbbc abbbbbc
abbc abbbc abbbbc abbbbbc
Metacharacters for searching
Metacharacters represent a character or symbol in InDesign. Metacharacters in the Text section of the Find/Change dialog box begin with a
caret (^); metacharacters in the GREP section begin with a tilde (~) or backslash (\). You can type metacharacters in the Text tab or GREP tab of
the Find/Change dialog box.
Save time fixing punctuation errors by saving search strings as queries.
Character: Text tab metacharacter: GREP tab metacharacter:
Tab Character ^t \t
End of Paragraph ^p \r
Forced Line Break ^n \n
Any Page Number ^# ~#
Current Page Number ^N ~N
Next Page Number ^X ~X
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