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    • Vasile CarausV
      Vasile Caraus
      last edited by Vasile Caraus

      hello Claudia, yes, I am sorry, I tried to delete or modify the title, but was too late.

      Anyway, the example was good.

      s earch
      will become
      search

      See this little sentence to see my problem. I want to eliminate the space from the interior of words, without joining the other words.

      focu s on the opposition be tween the apparent simplicity of prod ucing a distinct creation and its ulterior comple xity

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      • Scott SumnerS
        Scott Sumner
        last edited by

        …and j ust ho w in the heck is the reg ex eng ine suppose d to know w hich space is a space betw een words and which spac e is a space ins ide a wor d?

        :-D

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        • Vasile CarausV
          Vasile Caraus @Scott Sumner
          last edited by

          @Scott-Sumner

          hello Scott. I really don’t know…

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          • guy038G
            guy038
            last edited by

            Hello Vasile,

            Scott is perfectly right about it !! How the regex engine could guees, for instance, than the two words be and tween are finally the single word between ? And anyway, the first word be is quite a valid English word, isn’t it ?

            So I would advice you to use, rather, a Spell-checker plugin, which will, automatically, highlight all the non-correct words of your text

            Best Regards,

            guy038

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            • AdrianHHHA
              AdrianHHH
              last edited by

              See also http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/poetry/martha-snow.html

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              • Js jSJ
                Js jS
                last edited by

                where did the original text come from?

                how were the spaces introduced into the text?

                maybe there is a pattern that can be used to identify the “bad” spaces

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                • Vasile CarausV
                  Vasile Caraus
                  last edited by Vasile Caraus

                  hello, Js. This is what I am trying to figure out.

                  Right now I am trying some combination like this one:

                  Search: \x20?\x20
                  Replace by: $1

                  Is not quite very good, but I have time to check more things. I got to have luck :D

                  But I need to make some kind of a connection with a dictionary, with a spell check.

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                  • Js jSJ
                    Js jS
                    last edited by

                    you have not answered the question.

                    where did the text come from? … was it downloaded from website?

                    how were the spaces introduced?

                    were there other characters in the text, like html tags that someone incorrectly deleted by replacing tags with spaces?

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                    • Vasile CarausV
                      Vasile Caraus
                      last edited by

                      oh, sure. The text was made after using a pdf to txt converter.

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                      • Js jSJ
                        Js jS
                        last edited by Js jS

                        ouch!!

                        try opening the original pdf file using Notepad++
                        you may get lucky, and the contents may be cleartext (not compressed)

                        otherwise, try a different pdf to txt converter or try ocr software

                        good luck

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