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I am trying to format a part of a paragraph (I have the paragraph style) with GREP.
It is the caption of some photos and the phrases are divided by the sign of "|": This is phrase 1 | This is phrase 2
I would like to use GREP to style only phrase 1 (with character style), but I get dizzy with the commands GREP.
You could use this GREP expression to select the first phrase:
.+(?= \|)
Let's have a look at the individual parts of the expression.
.+
This searches for Any Character . repeated One or More Times +.
(?= \|)
This is a Positive Lookahead which searches for text that comes before a space followed by a vertical bar \|. We need to unescape the | with a \ because it has a special use in GREP.
So the expression is searching for: One or more characters that comes before a space followed by a vertical bar.
Add a GREP Style to the Paragraph Style to automatically format all instances of phrase 1 with a certain Character Style. Like this:
.+(?=\|)? One or more characters before a space followed by a vertical bar.