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DiapDealer · 03-25-2013, 05:37 PM

I'm not certain I'm entirely following. In your pseudo-regex:

Code:

(?<=\bI)[non-space, non-character](?=m\b)

You seem to want to match the position in between Im (with word boundaries on either side) so you can replace that captured "position" with an apostrophe. But if you're basically going to run a search for "Im"... then why not just replace all instances of \bIm\b with "I'm". Or \b((?i)c)(?-i)ant\b with "\1an't" ? Shouldn't take too long to go through most of the common contractions.

03-25-2013, 05:37 PM	#6
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 27,547 Karma: 193191846 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	I'm not certain I'm entirely following. In your pseudo-regex: Code: (?<=\bI)[non-space, non-character](?=m\b) You seem to want to match the position in between Im (with word boundaries on either side) so you can replace that captured "position" with an apostrophe. But if you're basically going to run a search for "Im"... then why not just replace all instances of \bIm\b with "I'm". Or \b((?i)c)(?-i)ant\b with "\1an't" ? Shouldn't take too long to go through most of the common contractions.