From the course: Introduction to GREP in InDesign
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Other expressions, part 2 - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to GREP in InDesign
Other expressions, part 2
- [Instructor] The next thing is character classes. Character classes are sort of like wild cards, but you get to decide what goes in them. Let's take a look at why you might want to use a character class. You may want to create a more inclusive wild card. For instance, if you want to find not only any lowercase or any upper case characters, but any of either, you could create a character class. In fact, InDesign has one built in, the Any Letter wildcard is actually a character class. You'll notice character classes appear in square brackets. You can find several characters all at once by listing them inside a character class. For instance, maybe you want to find all your lowercase vowels: a, e, i, o, and u. You would just list them inside there. Now, when I do a search, find next, find next, it just finds all the lowercase vowels in my text. If I wanted to find all the uppercase ones, I would also add those. You can also…
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