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5 minutes ago, Seneca said:

Now that we have Regular Expressions it would be great to save them as presets so that we can call them later.

Yes, and to be specific, the saving of the replace strings as well. (And I would add that not all regular expressions can even be used in the Replace input. So that needs fixing.)

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1 hour ago, MikeW said:

And I would add that not all regular expressions can even be used in the Replace input. So that needs fixing

Some specific examples of that would help, though probably best in a separate topic.

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1 hour ago, MikeW said:

Just try the \s from the other post from Seneca. I mentioned it there.

And see my response there :) 

Publisher handled that properly.

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I'm very excited to have regular expressions at all. My impression of the power of this program has gone up greatly from this addition.

I understand this is just the first beta of the new feature. Like, Seneca's suggestion, adding the ability to save searches/replace combos (particularly regex, though why stop there?) is what I would recommend for the next step of fleshing out this feature. I regularly run through a set of fifteen in almost every document, and having them saved in the app itself makes it easier.

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It's really huge progress with RE, thank you!

It would be really great feature to save strings as preset but also possibility to use custom name of that preset in palette menu e.g. "Dash to En Dash", "Multiple space to single space" etc.

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  • 3 years later...

I'm fiddling with Regex in 2.0 and am amazed that either the ability to save searches doesn't exist or it is remarkably well hidden. I format 400+ page science texts from Word sources and doing so would be misery without a series of InDesign's GREP searches. But the key to doing that is to be able to name and save them. Without that feature, doing those documents with Regex in Publisher is nigh unto worthless. I'd have to enter complex strings many dozens of times a day. That keeps me stuck with ID. 

That said, Publisher could equal and exceed ID in features if it added not only saved searches but as another poster pointed out the ability to run a set of them in sequence. I have about half a dozen GREPs I run with each chapter of a book. That I must do over and over again, hoping I don't forget one. It'd be great if Publisher could let us name searches and run saved sets of searches.

Even better would be the ability to specify when using Place with text to run a set of replaces on the incoming text. That would remove a lot of the tedium.

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That sounds like a really good candidate for scripting.  We were told - informally - that this was being worked on a year or two back.

Obviously, scripting isn't there in v2.0, but I'm hopeful that it will become available "shortly".  Possibly in v2.1?  Well, some time before v3 is launched anyway. 😀

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