On Thursday 20 August 2009 15:04:04 Harold Fuchs wrote:
> 2009/8/20 Jonathan Kaye <[email protected]>
>
> > Hi all,
<<<SNIPPED by Pradeep>>>
> > All suggestions are welcome.
> > TIA
> > Jonathan
>
> In the Find & Replace dialogue click "More options" and then check
> Regular Expressions. Now, in the Find box, enter " *" without the
> quotes. That is 2 spaces followed by an asterisk. Enter a single
> space into the "Replace with" box and click "Replace all". That
> should do it. What you have done is replaced "a single space
> followed by zero or more spaces" with "a single space". Read up
> about Regular Expressions for details. Your time doing that will be
> well spent :-)
Jonathan,
In the Search and Replace box, choose the "More" button, and place a
check mark against Regular Expressions. Then in the "Find" field, put
in the following WITHOUT the double quotes : " "{2,}
In the Replace field, put in, again, without the double quote, " "
The RE translates to - find one space, at least twice in succession.
If you knew the MAXIMUM number of spaces, then, you could specify that
maximum number after the "2," thus : " "{2,10}
The Replace pattern is simple - just a single space.
This should work (limited testing shows it does) - it is not to say
that the method suggested by Harold does not...and therefore, Harold,
my apologies!
--
Pradeep V S
on 20 Aug 2009, Thursday, IST (which is GMT +05:30)
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