: Is there an environment with GREP outside of InDesign? The GREP find and search integrated in InDesign is very powerful. Is there a similar smart way outside of InDesign?

@Yeniel278

They are called regular expressions (regexp).

Most good editors have regexp support. Pesonally i use Scite, but most good text editors have this support these include but are not limited to notepad++, vim, sublime text.

Most *nix commandlines come equipped with a utilities for this. Such as grep or (egrep on most systems for regexp search), sed and awk that do the same thing if you have a mac or linux then most of these just work.

Most porgramming languages have direct regexp support, and those that do not have some module to implement it instead.

Many word processors include this feature, including MS Word, and many many others. In fact InDesign was probably one of the last programs to be added this feature.

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