# How about:
put "my " & quote & " beautiful " & quote & " laundrette" into srctext
put "<" into repchar
put 0 into oldoff
put 1 into toff
repeat while toff > 0
put offset(quote,srctext,oldoff) into toff
if toff > 0 then
put repchar into char oldoff + toff of srctext
add toff to oldoff
if repchar ="<" then
put ">" into repchar
else
put "<" into repchar
end if
end if
end repeat
put replacetext(srctext,"<[ ]+",quote) into srctext
put replacetext(srctext,"[ ]+>",quote) into srctext
put srctext
-- output: my "beautiful" laundrette
# Not a very pretty or robust script but it worked on your test data.
I don't know if there will only ever be one consecutive superfluous
space but I had it clean up multiple spaces anyway.
There is a big assumption in this that opening and closing quotes are
always balanced. If this is not the case, this procedure will give bad
results.
Also if the characters "<" and ">" might occur in the data, different
substitution characters should be used. These are OK on this example.
Martin Baxter
jbv wrote:
Hi,
thanks for the response, but I don't think it would work...
let's go back to my example :
my " beautiful " laundrette
if you replace tOpenSpace first, then you get :
my "beautiful "laundrette
and then if you replace tCloseSpace, you get
my"beautiful"laundrette
Thanks anyway,
JB
I'm curious what mandates regEx?
if the means is not an issue in reaching the goal , doesn't
"replace" work for you?
This is obvious, but for the record:
function wipeQuotedSpaces tText
put (quote & " ") into tOpenSpace
put ( " " & quote) into tCloseSpace
replace tOpenSpace with quote in tText
replace tCloseSpace with quote in tText
return tText
end wipeQuotedSpaces
Thanks,
JB
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