A Little GREP help

Anne Wold

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- December 26, 2014 at 7:20 pm #72361
  
  Anne Wold
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  I am trying to clean up an ebook I converted from PDF. I have figured out how to corrected most of the mistakes that crept in but I am having a hard time figuring out an easy way to find quoted text that has broken over 2 paragraphs.
  
  EX:
  “Why haven’t you told them?” I’d demanded, sitting down but doing nothing about taking wine. “Don’t you think they have a right to know what they’re sharing a camp with?
  Will you be happier if one of them finds out the hard way?”
- December 29, 2014 at 9:51 am #72415
  
  Aaron Troia
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  You can try something like this, which will find instances of a closing quotation mark but no opening quotation mark:
  
  ^[^\“]+\”
  or
  ^[^~{]+~}
  
  or for just opening quotation mark with no closing quotation mark:
  
  \“[^”]+$
  or
  ~{[^~}]+$
  
  I used unicode opening and closing quotation marks in the first ones, and in the second I used the InDesign Specific double opening (~{) and closing (~}) quotation marks. Anyway, hope that helps.
- December 29, 2014 at 1:42 pm #72426
  
  Anne Wold
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  Thank you! Using this in a style I was able to find the broken quotes easily.
- December 29, 2014 at 1:56 pm #72427
  
  Aaron Troia
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  No problem :)
- December 31, 2014 at 3:14 am #72473
  
  Masood Ahmad
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  Hi Anne,
  
  I think I answered this on your post:
  
  little grep help
  
  I quote it again:
  
  Hi Anne, Try this using GREP Find/Change
  
  Find what:
  “.+\r.+?”
  (i.e. double quotes-dot-plus sign-backslash r-dot-plus sign-question mark-double quotes)
  
  any queries, please revert back…
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