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Steadyhands · 12-29-2014, 04:05 AM

Have I over-complicated this?

My aim was to come up with one regex to find ‘s and <space>‘s that followed any Unicode text and could be followed by either a space or punctuation, then replace the curly quote and remove the extra space.
Find

Code:

((?<=([\p{Ll}]))‘s(?=([\p{P}|\s]))|(?<=([\p{Ll}]))\s‘s(?=([\p{P}|\s])))

Replace

Code:

’s

fooè ‘s foo foo‘s foo fo's foo ‘s foo ’s dog ‘scooter’

12-29-2014, 04:05 AM	#445
Steadyhands Connoisseur Posts: 57 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Samsung Tablet	Have I over-complicated this? My aim was to come up with one regex to find ‘s and <space>‘s that followed any Unicode text and could be followed by either a space or punctuation, then replace the curly quote and remove the extra space. Find Code: ((?<=([\p{Ll}]))‘s(?=([\p{P}\|\s]))\|(?<=([\p{Ll}]))\s‘s(?=([\p{P}\|\s]))) Replace Code: ’s fooè ‘s foo foo‘s foo fo's foo ‘s foo ’s dog ‘scooter’