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Old 02-18-2014, 02:44 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Marcs1102 View Post
you may want to consider a double rename (ie standard rename first to rename all "..." to " ..." and then your regex renamer to look for "..."
If the OP did that, he might end up with an ellipsis preceded by two spaces. Besides, since my regular expression will find both "..." and " ..." there's no point in using two search and replace operations instead of one.

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Also, on an e-reader, I hate seeing the … appear on a new line all by itself, so I would add an   not a regular space.
That's what I'd do, too, but since the OP didn't specify that he wanted a non-breaking space before the ellipsis, I didn't include one.
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