GREP find and replace for section end character § in Publisher 1 (Mac OS)

[RobC]

I have a GREP find and replace set up to format certain ends of lines. I use \r or \n  which is working fine on the whole but it's not picking up the last line as it is the section end (§)and not a new line . I can't find a GREP character that includes this despite looking on various GREP sites. Any ideas?

[RobC]

Here's an example of what I'm trying to solve - I want to delete any hyphen with nothing after it (so bananas and damsons) 

 - +\r picks up bananas but not damsons

[MikeTO]

I believe \Z will find the end of a story

[RobC]

11 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

I believe \Z will find the end of a story

Thanks. Away from desk now but will check later 

[Old Bruce]

One thing to consider is whether or not there is a space after the hyphen. This should work;

(-(\n|\z))|(-( \n| \z))

or you could use \s instead of the simple single space in the second set. This would search for any white space character.

(-(\n|\z))|(-(\s\n|\s\z))

 

[RobC]

1 minute ago, Old Bruce said:

One thing to consider is whether or not there is a space after the hyphen. This should work;

(-(\n|\z))|(-( \n| \z))

or you could use \s instead of the simple single space in the second set. This would search for any white space character.

(-(\n|\z))|(-(\s\n|\s\z))

 

Thanks - I’ll try this later. GREP saves me so much time but I still always struggle to build the patterns so this will be very useful 

[Old Bruce]

Just now, RobC said:

...GREP saves me so much time but I still always struggle to build the patterns ...

One of my problems is that there are quite often multiple ways to build a pattern which will do what I want. I find myself trying to find the "best" method, and there isn't actually a "best", just a few different ways to achieve the same result.

[MikeW]

One could slightly simplify Old Bruce's pattern using just the end of line character. Makes for a single OR statement:

(-($))|(-\s($))

[Old Bruce]

Regarding my earlier claim that often there is no single "best" pattern; @MikeW's is the Best by far. Have a kudos Mike.

[RobC]

5 hours ago, MikeW said:

One could slightly simplify Old Bruce's pattern using just the end of line character. Makes for a single OR statement:

(-($))|(-\s($))

Both yours and @Old Bruce's solutions work a treat - it's greatly appreciated - I didn't know this end of line character and I think it will help me with another GREP problem that I've posted about before (and had stopped me moving from Publisher 1 to Publisher 2)