Hi all,
I'm trying to write a little script to replace and standardize all the different ways of writing an hellipses ("…"). Some people put spaces before, or after, or both - some put spaces between the periods - some use 3 dots while others use 4.
I am currently stuck with the following code - but it seems clunky, inelligant, slow, and still doesn't catch everything:
Hi all,
I'm trying to write a little script to replace and standardize all the different ways of writing an hellipses ("…"). Some people put spaces before, or after, or both - some put spaces between the periods - some use 3 dots while others use 4.
I am currently stuck with the following code - but it seems clunky, inelligant, slow, and still doesn't catch everything:
What I would LIKE to use is something along the lines of:
this should catch:
0 or more leading spaces
2 or more (period followed by 0 or more spaces)
but that doesn't seem to work. I also tried a "+" instead of the "{2,}" but that found all of the periods at the end of sentences.
Does anyone have an idea of how I can do this??
Thanks!
OK - I really wish there was a way to delete your own post…..That way I wouldn't look like such an idiot by asking the above question !!! lol
The line:
editor.pyreplace(r"*(\.*){2,}", r"…")
DOES work…you just have to remember to test it using the python CONSOLE and not by pasting the REGEX into the built in replace function…..duh
;-))