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Posted: **Sat Jun 06, 2020 9:51 pm**

I'm struggling to specify regex that will remove all strings of two or more spaces please?

For example, I want this:

The quick    brown   fox jumped...        over the lazy      dog.
And another  line   here.

to become this:

Code: Select all

The quick brown fox jumped...over the lazy dog.
And another line here.

Terry

Posted: **Sat Jun 06, 2020 10:10 pm**

OK, it came to me a few minutes later thanks. I hope this is correct?

Find
([^ ])([ ]+)

and replace with

\1

(That's \1 plus a space.)

Posted: **Sat Jun 06, 2020 10:48 pm**

Your regex matches the non-space character preceding the spaces, and replacing it with itself. Is there a particular reason you are doing this?

This is simpler:

Find what: _+
Replace with: _

[Replace the underscores with spaces]

Posted: **Sun Jun 07, 2020 2:06 pm**

Thanks, that is indeed much simpler!

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Removing redundant spaces

Removing redundant spaces