I'm looking to fix incorrect apostrophes at beginning of contracted words, but not match closed single smart quotes. If it was always a space after it would be easy but if the contraction is at the end of the sentence then ...
FYI - In the file speech is in double smart quotes. Not going to attempt a global S&R but just a step through.
Find this
‘em ‘bout ‘im
Not this
‘foo’ ‘bar’ ‘not this’ ‘or this,’ ‘this,’
I've been playing with variation of this
Quote:
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‘([^’]*?)([\.\,\;\:\?\!|\s])
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Edit - still playing with ideas
this works better - negative lookahead
Quote:
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(?!‘([a-z]* [a-z]*|[a-z]*|[a-z]* [a-z]*\p{P}|[a-z]*\p{P})’)‘
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