Thread: Regex Function - Split unknown word
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Old 11-28-2014, 04:09 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Paulie_D View Post
I see what you did there.

Yes I know but on some of the books I have I have literally hundreds of joined words and doing them one by one is extremely laborious.

I'm just hoping.
I suspect your epub originated from a scanned document or PDF. A search of the Workshop forum might yield something.

I've had a few books originating from PDF scans that were infested with hundreds of joined up words. Usually they've involved a limited number of common words (often proper nouns) so LondonBridge, ofLondon, Londonstreets, leaveLondon etc. With a few simple Regexs I was able to deal with 80% quite quickly. And then I used the spell checker for the remaining 20% - which might have 3 or even 4 words joined together.

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