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ElMiko · 06-13-2012, 11:45 AM

I was trying to catch instances where a blank space had been inserted in place of an apostrophe, rendering strings such as "John s " or "we ve " or "don t ", etc. So, I came up with:

Code:

\s(?=([st]|re|ve|ll)\b)

Which worked very nicely, as I replaced the highlighted blankspace with an apostrophe... until I realized that the "\b" was matching accented characters (eg. "a séance" or " töten").

Any ideas?

06-13-2012, 11:45 AM	#1
ElMiko Evangelist Posts: 480 Karma: 65460 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Kindle	\b matches accented characters I was trying to catch instances where a blank space had been inserted in place of an apostrophe, rendering strings such as "John s " or "we ve " or "don t ", etc. So, I came up with: Code: \s(?=([st]\|re\|ve\|ll)\b) Which worked very nicely, as I replaced the highlighted blankspace with an apostrophe... until I realized that the "\b" was matching accented characters (eg. "a séance" or " töten"). Any ideas?