Thanks Alberto, that is exactly what I needed!

Thanks all for your advice!

On Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at 10:46:04 AM UTC-4 Alberto Gutiérrez wrote:

> Hi, if you only need to catch and replace duplicated words in a text in 
> BBEdit, you can use this GREP search:
>
> Find: \b(\w+) +\1\b
> Replace: \1
>
> Cheers.
>
> El miércoles, 30 de octubre de 2024 a las 14:47:35 UTC+1, Patrick Woolsey 
> escribió:
>
>> Also, for reference: 
>>
>> > On Oct 30, 2024, at 02:21, ce gm <[email protected]> wrote: 
>> > I tried the Process Duplicate Lines command in BBEdit, but it did not 
>> remove duplicates of words within lines. 
>>
>> That is as expected; BBEdit's line processing commands apply only to 
>> hard-wrap delineated lines, not words or paragraphs, etc. 
>>
>>
>> > Does anyone know if there is a way to get BBEdit to identify duplicate 
>> words, then automatically delete one of them? 
>>
>> Though BBEdit does not contain any commands explicitly designed for this 
>> purpose, you may be able to accomplish the desired task (or at least a good 
>> deal of it) using its search & replace capabilities per my prior post. 
>>
>>
>> Regards, 
>>
>> Patrick Woolsey 
>> == 
>> Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/> 
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

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