Finding lines with coloured text in it
Posted: 2014-04-12 22:41:12
Hello together,
I am looking for a Power Find Pro search expression which finds in a very large document coherent text which has in it one or more of the following colours: blue, green, cyan, orange, purple, grey. Maybe there is also black text in it, maybe not. I want those lines which are preceded by a Tab or a Soft Return (preceeding Tab and Soft Return should not be found). The text ends with the first Soft Return or a Hard Return that occurs (these final returns should be found).
Afterwards the found text lines should be copied in a new document (but that is not the problem).
I made several attempts to build a search expresion but every time Nisus ended in the neverending spinning wheel (MacOS 10.9.2 on a MacBook Air 1,7 GHz i7, 8 GB RAM). So perhaps my attempts where too complicated. Can anybody help?
Greetings
Ulrich
Ramallah, West Bank
I am looking for a Power Find Pro search expression which finds in a very large document coherent text which has in it one or more of the following colours: blue, green, cyan, orange, purple, grey. Maybe there is also black text in it, maybe not. I want those lines which are preceded by a Tab or a Soft Return (preceeding Tab and Soft Return should not be found). The text ends with the first Soft Return or a Hard Return that occurs (these final returns should be found).
Afterwards the found text lines should be copied in a new document (but that is not the problem).
I made several attempts to build a search expresion but every time Nisus ended in the neverending spinning wheel (MacOS 10.9.2 on a MacBook Air 1,7 GHz i7, 8 GB RAM). So perhaps my attempts where too complicated. Can anybody help?
Greetings
Ulrich
Ramallah, West Bank