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Couldn't exactly find the answer in other threads. Here's what I'm trying to accomplish:

In the below example I want to apply a GREP style by finding only the title of the artwork. In this case, only the information before the comma on the first line. 

My Beautiful Painting #3, 1999.
Oil on canvas
25 x 25cm
Gift of the artist.

I think this needs to be done via the "positive lookbehind" match function, but I can't seem to figure out the syntax.

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  • Welcome to GraphicDesign! What have you tried? You're more likely to get a good answer if you show more effort
    – Zach Saucier
    Jan 25 '15 at 22:32
  • ^.*?(,|$) works for everything up to (and, unfortunately, including the comma). I only want it to run on the first line. This is why I want to use the lookbehind function – just struggling with getting results. So far this is what seemed to make sense to me .(?=,\s\d{4})
    – roeleveld
    Jan 25 '15 at 22:53
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    If your question is solved with that you could post it in more detail as an answer below to help others :)
    – Zach Saucier
    Jan 25 '15 at 23:09
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I think I figured it out. Should have been using positive lookahead, not lookbehind. .+(?=,\s\d{4}). This article was helpful carijansen.com/2013/03/03/positive-lookahead-grep-for-designers

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