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Apparently, punctuation isn't treated as part of a word, so it threw off the \< and \> tags. Instead, I've done this:

(\*)(\w+)[[:punct:]]*(\*)

asterisk, one or more words,...

I did - here's the result:

https://www.unix.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1008&stc=1&d=1248254626

Wouldn't that look for whole lines that begin and end with asterisks, rather than individual...

Sure thing. I used screenshots because it seemed the easiest way to illustrate what's going on.

Here is the original text, with a GREP string of nothing....

Simply that - your sample code does not return any results.


InDesign seems to store paragraphs as strings - as such I want to find words within that string that begin and end with an asterisk. ...

I tried both - neither worked.

\<.*\> returns everything, as would be expected.

\<\*.*\> , however, doesn't return words that start with an asterisk. I think it's choking on asterisks for some...

I am attempting to find all complete words which contain an asterisk at the beginning and the end - for instance, "*Hello?*" or "*you*".

From what I've read, I would have thought that the...