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signum · 06-20-2013, 05:18 PM

This will do it:
[^ ]“
where the quote mark is a left curly quote. The key is that a leading caret inside square brackets means "anything but", so we have "match anything but a space, followed by a left curly quote", just as the OP asked.

06-20-2013, 05:18 PM	#11
signum Zealot Posts: 119 Karma: 64428 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: none	This will do it: [^ ]“ where the quote mark is a left curly quote. The key is that a leading caret inside square brackets means "anything but", so we have "match anything but a space, followed by a left curly quote", just as the OP asked.