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Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Safari Books Online ch 16
electronic version; position unknown

\s finds all InDesign's spaces: the space character, en and em dashes, and all the thin spaces (thin, half, quarter, etc.).

I believe the intention was to say

Mark Suggs 
Safari Books Online ch 21
7th paragraph with heading: $

End of paragraph. Example: [^\.]$ finds all paragraphs that do not end in a period

This example appears to contradict the statement at the very end of Chapter 18:

Mark Suggs 
Safari Books Online ch 25
end of 2nd paragraph

For example, to find all words in a text with any number of vowels between b and l, use b[aeiou]+t. This finds bit, bat, boat, beaut, etc.

should say:

Mark Suggs 
Safari Books Online ch 36
before last paragraph

The last 3 paragraphs are:
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This replaces Jean-Louis with J.-L. But now we don't match single first names like James any longer, so we need to make double first names an option. We can do that by enclosing the whole second part in parentheses and adding a question mark:

Find what: (?x) ^ (\u)\l+ ( (-\u) \l+) ?

As you can see, we now have three sets of parentheses: the first, (\u), the second, ((-\u)\l+), and third, (\u) embedded within the second. This means that we have three back-references, which are counted as we listed them here. (Recall that the free-spacing modifier, though also in parentheses, is not considered a group and does not take part in the referrer count.) When a group is embedded within another, the embracing one, so to speak, is counted first, the embedded one next. In our example $2 refers to Louis or Ting, $3 to -L or -T. In the replacement string, we therefore need the first and the third referents:

Change to: $1.$3.

This nesting of references will occur frequently, so you need to be vigilant. This is also one of the reasons why you should always test expressions like these on a copy of a working document. InDesign's Undo is excellent, but don't put yourself at its mercy.
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The Change to will result in two periods after a name that is not hyphenated, so the situation the option in the Find statement sets out to correct isn't corrected.

Mark Suggs