regex to fix up hyphenated words please

cybmole · 01-06-2011, 03:43 AM

i want to auto-remove extra spaces in hyphenated words
i.e. change badly- spaced to badly-spaced.

not sure of the find +replace syntax.

I think I have to find [word boundary]- [wordboundary] then replace what I've found but without the space ?

Toxaris · 01-06-2011, 04:08 AM

Could be handy, but not automatic I think. There are cases when that kind of syntax is correct. At least in dutch it can be.

Jellby · 01-06-2011, 04:13 AM

Try searching for "\b- \b" and replacing with "-" (no quotes in either case). According to the documentation, \b matches a word boundary, but no character (so you don't have to worry about it when replacing).

But, as Toxaris says, beware of things like "inter- and intramolecular bonds".

01-06-2011, 03:43 AM	#1
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	regex to fix up hyphenated words please i want to auto-remove extra spaces in hyphenated words i.e. change badly- spaced to badly-spaced. not sure of the find +replace syntax. I think I have to find [word boundary]- [wordboundary] then replace what I've found but without the space ?

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01-06-2011, 04:08 AM	#2
Toxaris Wizard Posts: 4,520 Karma: 121692313 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Heemskerk, NL Device: PRS-T1, Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura	Could be handy, but not automatic I think. There are cases when that kind of syntax is correct. At least in dutch it can be.

01-06-2011, 04:13 AM	#3
Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,516 Karma: 18512745 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	Try searching for "\b- \b" and replacing with "-" (no quotes in either case). According to the documentation, \b matches a word boundary, but no character (so you don't have to worry about it when replacing). But, as Toxaris says, beware of things like "inter- and intramolecular bonds".

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