Too many hyphens

phossler · 06-12-2015, 06:36 PM

Trying to clean book from Project Guttenberg that must have stated life as a scan.

There are many mis-placed or not needed hyphens everywhere

example 1: bat-tered
example 2: $500,- 000
example 3: the cat and -the dog
example 4: the cat- and the dog

I've been using spellcheck, one mis-spelt word at a time

Is there any RegEx's that have been used to at least take some of the tedium out of it?

That way I could just [Find] and [Replace and Find] through the document

Would really like a RE that would address common cases so I could do a [Replace All]

Thanks

kovidgoyal · 06-12-2015, 10:48 PM

Use function mode.

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/func...phenated-words

phossler · 06-14-2015, 10:18 AM

Thanks -- I was a little worried when I just went through using [Find] since it found the ending and starting > <, but once I puzzled my way though the function to try and understand the logic, a [Replace All] worked fine

06-12-2015, 06:36 PM	#1
phossler Wizard Posts: 1,087 Karma: 447222 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Valley Forge, PA, USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Too many hyphens Trying to clean book from Project Guttenberg that must have stated life as a scan. There are many mis-placed or not needed hyphens everywhere example 1: bat-tered example 2: $500,- 000 example 3: the cat and -the dog example 4: the cat- and the dog I've been using spellcheck, one mis-spelt word at a time Is there any RegEx's that have been used to at least take some of the tedium out of it? That way I could just [Find] and [Replace and Find] through the document Would really like a RE that would address common cases so I could do a [Replace All] Thanks

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06-12-2015, 10:48 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,317 Karma: 27111242 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Use function mode. http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/func...phenated-words

06-14-2015, 10:18 AM	#3
phossler Wizard Posts: 1,087 Karma: 447222 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Valley Forge, PA, USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Thanks -- I was a little worried when I just went through using [Find] since it found the ending and starting > <, but once I puzzled my way though the function to try and understand the logic, a [Replace All] worked fine

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