I would like to find lines where there are 2x double spaces

Thomas 2020

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Thomas 2020

2x double space

PeterJones

Since you have not used the forum’s toolbar or markdown to properly format the data, we cannot tell what you have or what you want.

This next paragraph will help you ask your question better. Good luck.

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PeterJones

@PeterJones said in I would like to find lines where there are 2x two spaces:

we cannot tell what you have or what you want.

That said, based solely on your title, I would think typing two spaces into the FIND box would do what you want.

Thomas 2020

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Thomas 2020

Thomas 2020

Subject title contains an error … should be:
I would like to find lines where there are 2x double spaces

and it should be possible to correct it.
This is the biggest mistake of this forum.
There are others, but that’s another topic.

guy038

Hello , @pan-jan and All,

I had to look at your picture several times to understand what you’re hoping for ! So, you want to find all the lines containing, at least, two strings containing, each, 2 consecutive space characters ;-))

However you don’t tell us witch process you intend to do with these lines :

A Do you want to select all contents of these lines ?
B Do you want to select all contents of these lines and their line-breaks ?
C Do you want to find each double-space occurrence of these lines ?
D Do you want to bookmark these lines for further process with the Search > Bookmark sub-menu ?
E Do you want to delete these lines ?
F Do you want to perform some kind of replacement in these lines ?

…

Here are the regex solutions for cases B and C :

Regex B (?-s)^.+\x20{2}.+\x20{2}.+\R?

Regex C (?-s)\x20{2}(?=.+\x20{2})|\G.+?\K\x20{2}

Regarding the regex C :

It can be shortened as (?-s)(\x20{2})(?=.+(?1))|\G.+?\K(?1), using the sub-routine calls structure (?#)
As expected, it does not find an unique double-space string of a line
As soon as a line contains, at least, two double-space strings, it matches any double-space string

Best regards,

guy038

Thomas 2020

Thanks.
I use AkelPad as the editor
and the pattern doesn’t work there … and not only there.

^\w+\s\s.+\s\s\w+$

I thought I would see another solution here.
$ at the end if \r or \n … in AkelPad they don’t work.

For me AkelPad has an advantage over Notepad ++ and is therefore its slave.

PS. I don’t know English, that’s why I make various mistakes.
The translation of Notepad ++ into Polish also has a lot to be desired.
Thank you again.

Alan Kilborn

@guy038 said

you want to find all the lines containing, at least, two strings containing, each, 2 consecutive space characters

I think your regexes are correct, but your restatement of the problem makes my head hurt. Maybe by the nature of the problem it is hard to state it cleanly. :-)

@Pan-Jan said:

The translation of Notepad ++ into Polish also has a lot to be desired.

Don’t complain about it, do something about it.
Translations are user-provided.
(The developers can’t be expected to be fluent in all possible languages)

guy038

Hi @pan-jan,

Ah… of course, the provided regexes work only with the Boost regex engine, implemented within Notepad++ !

And I bet that specific regex syntaxes as \R ( line-break character(s) ) or the \G assertion won’t work with the Akelpad editor :-((

Generally speaking, this forum is specifically devoted to Notepad++

Now, you may download a portable X86 Notepad++ version, just for a test !

Download the latest N++ version from below :

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/download/v7.8.8/npp.7.8.8.bin.zip

Extract all its contents in any folder, even on your desktop
Double-click on the notepad++.exe file
Open your file ( Ctrl + O )
Open the Find dialog ( Ctrl + F )
Type in (?-s)^.+\x20{2}.+\x20{2}.+\R? OR (?-s)\x20{2}(?=.+\x20{2})|\G.+?\K\x20{2}, in the Find what: zone
Tick the Wrap around option
Select the Regular expression search mode
Click, repeatedly, on the Find Next button !

Cheers,

guy038

guy038

Hi, @alan-kilborn,

Alan, what’s bugging you about my answer? Maybe I misspoke, in English !

Don’t hesitate ! I’ll try to do my best to make things clear ;-))

Cheers,

guy038

Thomas 2020

Everything is OK.
I don’t complain about anything, the translator explains it.
I will translate from Polish to English and again into Polish.
Then I’ll see what nonsense comes out to me.

guy038

Hi @pan-jan,

Note that, in my short previous post, I was talking to @alan-kilborn, specifically !

BR

guy038

Alan Kilborn

@guy038 said in I would like to find lines where there are 2x two spaces:

Alan, what’s bugging you about my answer? Maybe I misspoke, in English !

No worries.
I was just thinking that, for all the times that we complain that a poster hasn’t provided a good explanation of their problem/need, that this one is really hard to state, IMO.

Maybe:

“Find lines where two space characters occur two times”

Perhaps that’s not so bad, but the two occurrences of two feels strange.

Maybe the thread title is the best way to express it.

Anyway; rambling…your solution is fine, as I stated before.

Thomas 2020

Maybe the thread title is the best way to express it.
And the title of the thread cannot be changed and is misleading.

guy038

Hi, @pan-jan,

As a moderator, I succeeded to change the title of your initial post, as you wanted to but I could not re-insert the last two lines of your text because, on clicking on the Submit button, it always repeats that it considers this post as a spam :-( Sorry !

BR

guy038

Thomas 2020

this is it: