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Need syntax for the CleanUp Tasks plugin to shrink consecutive spaces
Thread poster: kd42
kd42
kd42
Estonia
Local time: 13:24
English to Russian
Oct 19, 2023

Good day,

I have a document with double and triple spaces, I tried typing two spaces in the "Find" field and one space in the "Replace with" field, but I get multiple error messages.

Is there a regex syntax which would mean "two and more spaces", like Word's [^32]{1;}?

A side note:
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There is a very close topic with very good answers and answerers where I would rather continue the discu... See more
Good day,

I have a document with double and triple spaces, I tried typing two spaces in the "Find" field and one space in the "Replace with" field, but I get multiple error messages.

Is there a regex syntax which would mean "two and more spaces", like Word's [^32]{1;}?

A side note:
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There is a very close topic with very good answers and answerers where I would rather continue the discussion [ https://www.proz.com/forum/trados_support/351299-need_to_delete_all_line_breaks_in_source.html ], but Proz forums don't have a good notification system. I posted a question about this drawback recently, this is a good example of the forums' imperfection. ▲ Collapse
 
Stepan Konev
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Russian Federation
Local time: 13:24
English to Russian
Regex Oct 20, 2023

Weirdly, replacing two spaces with one space works fine for me.
However, you can also use the following regular expression:
Find what: \s{2,}
Replace with: just type a single regular whitespace here


[Edited at 2023-10-21 09:32 GMT]

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