I'm trying to use extended regular expressions in the replace function, but sometimes it refuses to replace the selected text despite the fact that it is correctly searched.
For instance if I want to find a space followed by a word and replace the space with a semicolon I use:
" (?=\w)"
to be replaced with ";"
this correctly identifies the spaces, but pressing replace replaces nothing.
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I'm trying to use extended regular expressions in the replace function, but sometimes it refuses to replace the selected text despite the fact that it is correctly searched.
For instance if I want to find a space followed by a word and replace the space with a semicolon I use:
" (?=\w)"
to be replaced with ";"
this correctly identifies the spaces, but pressing replace replaces nothing.