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1v4n0 · 01-09-2015, 05:01 AM

EDIT: Solved

Let's say I want to replace all the occurrences of dash+digit, without a space, with dash space digit.

I can use a regex to find what I look for (a very simple one: -[:alpha:], for example), but I don't know how to automatically insert a space. The issue of course is somehow "saving" that digit each time, "copying" it, and pasting it after inserting the space.

I got a vague notion this could be done with javascript, but is there a simpler way?

ty

EDIT: Issue had already been solved, here. If I put the regex between (brackets) it saves the value it finds, which then I can paste by writing \1 in the "replace" field. So cool

And it works outside sigil as well (I just tried it w n++)

01-09-2015, 05:01 AM	#1
1v4n0 Groupie Posts: 173 Karma: 40000 Join Date: Oct 2013 Device: kindle	Replacing with regex EDIT: Solved Let's say I want to replace all the occurrences of dash+digit, without a space, with dash space digit. I can use a regex to find what I look for (a very simple one: -[:alpha:], for example), but I don't know how to automatically insert a space. The issue of course is somehow "saving" that digit each time, "copying" it, and pasting it after inserting the space. I got a vague notion this could be done with javascript, but is there a simpler way? ty EDIT: Issue had already been solved, here. If I put the regex between (brackets) it saves the value it finds, which then I can paste by writing \1 in the "replace" field. So cool And it works outside sigil as well (I just tried it w n++) Last edited by 1v4n0; 01-09-2015 at 05:13 AM.