Pradeep Srinivas wrote: > > 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! > > Thanks very much, Pradeep. I'll try out all the possibilities and see which one can work but what you, Harold and Johnny have suggested give me exactly the help I needed. In my reply to Harold you can see how I "solved" the problem but your solutions are better than mine. Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ Please do not send me copies of list mail. I read the lists. Thanks!
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