Neophyte with GREP. Need to do following to a wire service feed our back end
can't seem to clean up. It's coming in with paragraph returns at the end of
every line. I want to search for paragraph returns NOT preceded by a period
and replace 'em with a space.

Thanks
Massey Padgham

(?<![.?!])\r

The above will find any returns not following a period, question mark
or exclamation mark.

Just put a space in the change field, and you're set.

Some good resources for learning GREP:

1) Peter Kahrel's book on GREP in InDesign. (must read) http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596156015/
2) http://www.regular-expressions.info/ has an excellent tutorial on
GREP. (That's where I learned how to use GREP as per Peter Kahrel's
advice.)
3) Kris' flash tool for exploring GREP results here: http://www.rorohiko.com/greptutor/GrepTutor.html

Harbs
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On Oct 18, 2009, at 5:47 AM, Massey Padgham wrote:

> Neophyte with GREP. Need to do following to a wire service feed our
> back end can't seem to clean up. It's coming in with paragraph
> returns at the end of every line. I want to search for paragraph
> returns NOT preceded by a period and replace 'em with a space.
>
> Thanks
> Massey Padgham

In addition--watch for Michael Murphy's new training video on GREP on
lynda.com. He just finished recording. Or go to his website and find
out where he teaches and take a hands-on class from him.

Jane

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Harbs <harbs@[Protected]> wrote:

> Some good resources for learning GREP:
>
> 1) Peter Kahrel's book on GREP in InDesign. (must read)
> http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596156015/
> 2) http://www.regular-expressions.info/ has an excellent tutorial on GREP.
> (That's where I learned how to use GREP as per Peter Kahrel's advice.)
> 3) Kris' flash tool for exploring GREP results here:
> http://www.rorohiko.com/greptutor/GrepTutor.html