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pepak · 10-28-2009, 02:13 AM

I like to use this regular expression:

Code:

Search = ([>_])'(.*?[^a-z_])'([<_])
Replace = $1{opening_quote}$2{closing_quote}$3

(replace _ in the search string with space)
It is intended for HTML source with reasonable typography (e.g. proper punctuation before closing quotes) and can't handle some situations (words starting with an apostrophe followed by real opening quotes), but apart from that it performs surprisingly well.

10-28-2009, 02:13 AM	#13
pepak Guru Posts: 610 Karma: 4150 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: Sony Reader PRS-T3, Kobo Libra H2O	I like to use this regular expression: Code: Search = ([>_])'(.*?[^a-z_])'([<_]) Replace = $1{opening_quote}$2{closing_quote}$3 (replace _ in the search string with space) It is intended for HTML source with reasonable typography (e.g. proper punctuation before closing quotes) and can't handle some situations (words starting with an apostrophe followed by real opening quotes), but apart from that it performs surprisingly well.