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ElMiko · 12-01-2011, 12:34 PM

So...

I'm cleanining up a book which has added title headings to the body of the text so that it looks like this:

Code:

<p>We were walking down the street when</p>

<p>THIS IS THE BOOK TITLE</p>

<p>we saw a squirrel sleeping in the middle of the road.</p>

Given the number of words in the title, and the fact that it is in all caps, this would generally be an easy fix. Unfortunately, the title has spaces thrown into it randomly so that it will look like:

Code:

THI S IS THE B OOK TITLE
or
THIS IS THE BO OK TI TLE
or
THIS I S THE BOOK TITLE
or
THIS IS THE B O O K TITLE
....etc

Is there any way to get match by matching the letters in the string while ignoring the spaces? And furthermore is it possible if the title is a mix of uppercase and lowercase?

12-01-2011, 12:34 PM	#1
ElMiko Evangelist Posts: 471 Karma: 65460 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Kindle	Match a string while ignoring some character in that string? So... I'm cleanining up a book which has added title headings to the body of the text so that it looks like this: Code: <p>We were walking down the street when</p> <p>THIS IS THE BOOK TITLE</p> <p>we saw a squirrel sleeping in the middle of the road.</p> Given the number of words in the title, and the fact that it is in all caps, this would generally be an easy fix. Unfortunately, the title has spaces thrown into it randomly so that it will look like: Code: THI S IS THE B OOK TITLE or THIS IS THE BO OK TI TLE or THIS I S THE BOOK TITLE or THIS IS THE B O O K TITLE ....etc Is there any way to get match by matching the letters in the string while ignoring the spaces? And furthermore is it possible if the title is a mix of uppercase and lowercase? Last edited by ElMiko; 12-01-2011 at 01:01 PM.