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Dashcroft · 12-10-2022, 02:08 AM

Hi,
I would like to automatically find and replace the spaces in "T. S. Eliot", "D. H. Lawrence", "F. R. Leavis" and similarly patterned names with non-breaking spaces. I've tried:

Find:

Code:

[A-Z]\.\s

Replace:

Code:

\g<0>&#nbsp;

But that still leaves the spaces in. What am I doing wrong and what might help in this case?

12-10-2022, 02:08 AM	#1
Dashcroft Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle Scribe	Regex expression to replace certain spaces with nonbreaking spaces Hi, I would like to automatically find and replace the spaces in "T. S. Eliot", "D. H. Lawrence", "F. R. Leavis" and similarly patterned names with non-breaking spaces. I've tried: Find: Code: [A-Z]\.\s Replace: Code: \g<0>&#nbsp; But that still leaves the spaces in. What am I doing wrong and what might help in this case?