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How can I replace a quote-character (") followed by a space at the right-end of a row with a quote-character (")?

Find what: "_$ [Replace the underscore with a space]
Replace with: "

[X] Regular expression

Cannot match regular expression:
“ $

Your text contains a " ((ASCII) quotation mark: U+0022) but your search pattern contains a “ (left double quotation mark: U+201C).

"The Fast and the Furious "
"The Love Bug "
"Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke "
"Training Day "
"The Evil Dead "
"Dumb and Dumber "
"2 Fast 2 Furious "
"American Graffiti "
"Bad Boys II "
"National Lampoon’s Animal House "
"National Lampoon’s Vacation "
"Thelma & Louise "
"Minority Report "
"Corvette Summer "
"48 Hrs "
"Robocop "
"Cobra "
"Mad Max "
"The Car "
"Grease "
"Sahara "
"Aliens "
"Twins "
"Bullitt "
"Phantasm "
"Bad Boys "
"Joe Dirt "
"Rain Man "
"Iron Man "
"THX-1138 "
"Starsky & Hutch "
"Gone in 60 Seconds (1973) "
"Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) "
"The Gumball Rally "
"Batman, Batman Returns "
"The Mexican "
"Tango & Cash "
"Death Race 2000 "
"Speed Racer "
"Christine "
"Batman Begins, The Dark Knight "
"Goldfinger "
"Fast Times at Ridgemont High "
"The Muppet Movie "
"Better Off Dead "
"Vanishing Point, Death Proof "
"Romancing the Stone "
"Good Burger "
"White Lightning "
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang "
"The Italian Job (1969) "
"The Italian Job (2003) "
"Pink Cadillac "
"The Cat in the Hat "
"Little Miss Sunshine "
"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade "
"Kill Bill Vol. 1 "
"The Big Lebowski "
"Mystery Men "
"Transformers "
"Bruce Almighty "
"My Cousin Vinny "
"Smokey and the Bandit "
"The Bourne Identity "
"The Absent-Minded Professor "
"The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai "
"Raiders of the Lost Ark "
"Thunderbolt and Lightfoot "
"Black Moon Rising "
"The Cannonball Run "
"Scooby-Doo "
"Death Proof "
"Maximum Overdrive "
"Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery "
"Inspector Gadget "
"The Beverly Hillbillies "
"Dirty Mary Crazy Larry "
"The Blues Brothers "
"The Dukes of Hazzard "
"Risky Business "
"The Transporter "
"The Great Race "
"The Karate Kid "
"Transporter 2 "
"Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2 "
"The Wraith "
"Back to the Future "
"Tucker: The Man and His Dream "
"Batman: The Movie "
"Days of Thunder "
"Get Shorty "
"The Graduate, Wayne’s World 2 "
"Ferris Bueller’s Day Off "
"The Spy Who Loved Me "
"Wayne’s World "
"Tommy Boy "

It's most edifying to know the films you watch, but why did you post that?

Do you want to remove the space before the second quote character in each line? That's not what you asked for.

Yes

So you want to replace a quote-character (") preceded by a space at the right-end of a row with a quote-character (").

Try this:
Find what: _"$ [Replace the underscore with a space]
Replace with: "

gcotterl wrote:a quote-character (") followed by a space

So you actually meant "a quote character (") following a space".

Given your list of examples you would not even had to use regular expressions - just search for a unique string (two characters in your case: a space, followed by a quotation mark) and replace it with whatever you want (one quotation mark, in your case). Easy as that, as there is not one occurance where this would lead to a wrong replacement.