Re: regEx to remove spaces ?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi JB,

Again, no regex. I looked into regex, but I can't find how to replace  
quoted strings without knowing the whole string in advance. It would  
be great if someone came up with a regex solution for this. In the  
mean time, this function seems to do the job quite nicely:

function decentQuotes theStr
  set the itemDel to space
  repeat for each word myWord in theStr
    if number of items of myWord > 1
    then put quote & word 1 to -1 of (char 2 to -2 of myWord) & ¬
    quote & space after myNewStr else put myWord & space after myNewStr
  end repeat
  return char 1 to -2 of myNewStr
end decentQuotes

Note that it assumes that strings are always surrounded by pairs of  
quotes. Grammar errors are not taken care of.

Best,

Mark

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Op 17-mei-2006, om 11:45 heeft jbv het volgende geschreven:

Hi list,

Is it possible to use regEx to remove spaces before and
after quotes, and, if yes, how ?

Example :
    my " beautiful " laundrette
becomes
    my "beautiful" laundrette

Thanks,
JB

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