Add a space between a word and a hyphen stuck to its right side, as well as skip such instances in other parts

dr ramaanand

Block of text for testing:-

<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content- Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<META name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<h1>BOTHROPS</h1>
<p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none;">BOTHROPS LANCEOLATUS uses [Both-l uses]</p>
Haemorrhages- dark
Fear- of death
E-mail us
<h6>Remedies A- Z</h6>
<ul>
Some- list- here
Dunking- donuts
Seventytwo- houris
</ul>
<style type="text/css">
@media (min- width: 1281px) {
.left {
 width: 180px;
 border-width:1px;
 border-style:solid;
 border-color:lightblue;
 padding-top:10px;
}
.right {
 width: 560px;
 border- width:1px;
 border- style:solid;
 border- color:lightblue;
 margin- top:0px;
}
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
 new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en'}, 'google- translate- element');
}
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dr ramaanand

How to add a space between a word and a hyphen stuck to its right side, as well as skip such instances in other parts :-
The resultant output should be

Haemorrhages - dark
Fear - of death

Coises

@dr-ramaanand said in Add a space between a word and a hyphen stuck to its right side, as well as skip such instances in other parts:

I tried (<html[\S\s]*?<\/h1>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<p[^>]*>[\S\s]*?uses\]<\/p>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<[\S\s]*?>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(E-mail)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<h6[^<>]*>.*?<\/h6>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(A-Z)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<ul.*?<\/ul>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(2009-2024)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<style[\S\s]*?<\/style>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<script[\S\s]*?<\/script>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(\w+)-(\x20\w+) with $1 - $2 in the replace field to no avail

Two obvious things:

(<[\S\s]*?>)(*SKIP)(*F) in your exclusions always matches everything to the end of the document and then fails, so it excludes everything. Take that out.

You have a lot of capturing groups, so $1 - $2 isn’t going to work. Less troublesome would be to replace (\w+)-(\x20\w+) with (?<=\w)-(?=\s); then you can replace with x20- and not worry about capture groups at all.

Also, some tests won’t work unless . matches newline is checked, or you add (?s) to the beginning.

This:

Replace with: \x20-

works on your test data.

dr ramaanand

@Coises Thanks a lot. I also got two more solutions from someone at www.regex101.com which is to use a Regular expression.
One solution was to use this in the Find field:-

(?x)(<html[\S\s]*?<\/h1>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<p[^>]*>[\S\s]*?uses\]<\/p>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<[\S\s]*?>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(E-mail)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<h6[^<>]*>.*?<\/h6>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(A-Z)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<a\s[^>]*href.*?<\/a>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(2009-2024)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<style[\S\s]*?<\/style>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<script[\S\s]*?<\/script>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(\w+)-\x20\b

with $11 - $12 in the Replace field

Another was to use this in the Find field:-

(?x)(<html[\S\s]*?<\/h1>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<p[^>]*>[\S\s]*?uses\]<\/p>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<[\S\s]*?>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(E-mail)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<h6[^<>]*>.*?<\/h6>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(A-Z)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<a\s[^>]*href.*?<\/a>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(2009-2024)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<style[\S\s]*?<\/style>)(*SKIP)(*F)|(<script[\S\s]*?<\/script>)(*SKIP)(*F)|\w+\K-\x20\b

with - in the Replace field

dr ramaanand

@Coises I am posting those solutions here so that someone may find it useful, later (since this webpage can be found online)

dr ramaanand

Warning note: Wherever the RegExes, that is, regular expressions mentioned above did not find anything, it replaced everything with what was typed in the, “Replace” field. I therefore restored everything from a back-up, added, “Czeslawski- Lewinski” in a part that was not skipped while searching and made the replacements; I then removed the, “Czeslawski- Lewinski”. I chose those words (Polish-American names actually) because they are unique

guy038

Hello, @dr-ramaanand, @coises and All,

I tried to simplify the @coises search regex and I ended up with this search regex :

(?s-i)(<(.+?)[> ].*?(?:/>|</\2>))(*SKIP)(*F)|(?-s).+\R

So, given your INPUT text :

<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content- Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<META name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<h1>BOTHROPS</h1>
<p style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none;">BOTHROPS LANCEOLATUS uses [Both-l uses]</p>
Haemor- rhages- dark
Fear- of death
E-mail us
<h6>Remedies A- Z</h6>
<ul>
Some- list- here
Dunking- donuts
Seventytwo- houris
</ul>
<style type="text/css">
@media (min- width: 1281px) {
.left {


 width: 180px;
 border-width:1px;
 border-style:solid;
 border-color:lightblue;
 padding-top:10px;
}
.right {
 width: 560px;
 border- width:1px;
 border- style:solid;
 border- color:lightblue;
 margin- top:0px;
}
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
 new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en'}, 'google- translate- element');
}
</script>

This regex just matches the three consecutive lines, below :

Haemor- rhages- dark
Fear- of death
E-mail us

Note that I deliberately added an other string r-, followed with a space character, for tests !

Thus, the following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?s-i)(<(.+?)[> ].*?(?:/>|</\2>))(*SKIP)(*F)|(?<=\w)-(?=\x20)

REPLACE \x20-

Will replace, in these three lines ONLY, any string letter-, followed with a space char, with the string letter - and a space char

Best Regards,

guy038