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.....will find and fix double spaces in text

Updated 26. January 2009 - 17:00 by chris.p

Sometimes I get sent articles written by others, for publication, and they are filled with random double spaces between words, which drives me crazy.

I've tried to write a script to find & replace in NoteTab but failed, I'm not a good enough coder (well, I'm not a coder).

Does anyone know of an S&R utility that definitely does this, to save me wasting time installing and using loads that don't? Or a GREP version that will fix it?

 

Chris

 

 

by chris.p on 26. January 2009 - 21:53  (14738)

Peter, I got emeditor, you thought that might work? But how do put in a request to find a double space?

chris.p
by Anonymous on 26. January 2009 - 23:39  (14747)

Oh boy, with so many free excellent notepad replacements you had to find *only* a shareware. Use Pspad instead.
by peter on 26. January 2009 - 22:11  (14740)

I've only got version 8 & it definitely works in that. Search (double space) ie. two taps on spacebar Replace (single space) ... but you'd have worked that out.
by chris.p on 26. January 2009 - 21:48  (14737)

Yeah - but whenever I go this route I download a bunch of apps, then try them, then learn to use them, then find they don't do EXACTLY what I needed.

So I figured I'd ask the question and someone might know, and I get a shortcut. The problem is - how do you code in a request to find a double space?? That's the issue. You might tell me an app to do it - but it will still fail for me because I don't know the right regex.

chris.p
by Anonymous on 26. January 2009 - 23:34  (14746)

Well you can create a batch script to do it, but I'm not aware of a search-n-replace command line app that suports regex (I have never looked for one). If you can use notepad-like app, the regex for double space is "\s{2}" without "", search-n-replace this with "\s".
by Anonymous on 26. January 2009 - 18:56  (14728)

Have you seen http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-search-and-replace-utility.html ? Doesn't any of those utilities work ? I assume you're talking of .doc, .docx... articles, right?

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