Automating InDesign with Regular Expressions

Table of contents

1. Copyright
2. Introduction
3. The Basics
4. Regular Expression Essentials
   1. Special Characters
   2. Modifiers: Case Sensitivity and Global Matching
   3. Wildcards and Character Classes
   4. String and Word Boundaries
   5. Repetition
   6. Taming Repetition
   7. Backreferences
   8. Lookahead
   9. Matching Regex Syntax Characters
   10. Making Regexes More Readable
5. Some Examples
   1. Dates
   2. Ranges
   3. Showing Section Numbers
   4. Capturing Captions
6. Working with Plain Text
   1. Replace Using Wildcards
7. Working with Formatted Documents
   1. Smallcaps
   2. Replace Selectively
   3. Double-Barreled Regex: Add a Thin Space
   4. Page Ranges: Continued
   5. Drop Digits
   6. Keep Initials Together
   7. Replace: Functions
8. Variables in Regexes
9. Look Before You Leap
10. What JavaScript Cannot Do
11. Resources