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Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019) | Macro

CafeTran Trainer — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:17:00 +0000

Forum: General technical issues
Topic: Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019)
Poster: CafeTran Trainer
Post title: Macro

[quote]Gjorgji Apostolovski wrote:

And if you can make macro with these, you don't have to write them again.

[/quote]

The blue pane next to the Find and Replace window is popped up by a (Keyboard Maestro) macro whenever the window is opened. It contains the regular expressions I use most often.

Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019) | np:)

Gjorgji Apostolovski — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:00:00 +0000

Forum: General technical issues
Topic: Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019)
Poster: Gjorgji Apostolovski
Post title: np:)

No problem, and you can also add |c for o'clock
but I'm afraid that this regex will fail when there will be words like 'sheets', 'communities', 'theaters', etc...

The solution will be to use two regex,

the first one:
Find=(')(?!s|t|c)
Replace="

the second one:
Find=( ')(?=s|t|c) (space before ' )
Replace= " (space before " )

And if you can make macro with these, you don't have to write them again.

[Edited at 2024-12-12 17:48 GMT]

[Edited at 2024-12-12 18:05 GMT]

Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019) | Thanks

CafeTran Trainer — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:21:00 +0000

Forum: General technical issues
Topic: Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019)
Poster: CafeTran Trainer
Post title: Thanks

Thank you!

[Edited at 2024-12-12 15:21 GMT]

Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019) | I was bored

Gjorgji Apostolovski — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:08:00 +0000

Forum: General technical issues
Topic: Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019)
Poster: Gjorgji Apostolovski
Post title: I was bored

I know it's an old topic, but I was bored and here is my regex.

"(')(?!s|t)"

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[Edited at 2024-12-12 14:08 GMT]

Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019) | Hans doesn't want to change ’s

Thomas T. Frost — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 11:05:00 +0000

Forum: General technical issues
Topic: Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019)
Poster: Thomas T. Frost
Post title: Hans doesn't want to change ’s

[quote]Tony M wrote:

Normally, you can just use Search & Replace all ' with ', and provided you have smart quotes turned on AND the correct language set, it will just do it automatically. It doesn't matter whether or not there is a trailing 's', all that matters is whether or not their is a leading space. [/quote]

Yes, but Hans doesn't want to change ’s to "s. What I understood he wanted was e.g.:

Change ‘Eric’s new house was falling apart’
to "Eric’s new house was falling apart"
rather than "Eric"s new house was falling apart".

Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019) | Word's own S-&-R

Tony M — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:44:00 +0000

Forum: General technical issues
Topic: Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019)
Poster: Tony M
Post title: Word's own S-&-R

Normally, you can just use Search & Replace all ' with ', and provided you have smart quotes turned on AND the correct language set, it will just do it automatically. It doesn't matter whether or not there is a trailing 's', all that matters is whether or not their is a leading space.

Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019) | Later

CafeTran Trainer — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:24:00 +0000

Forum: General technical issues
Topic: Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019)
Poster: CafeTran Trainer
Post title: Later

[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:

According to this site:
[url removed]

This works:
FIND: (’)([^s])
REPLACE: "$2 [/quote]

Thank you, Samuel. I'll test it later. I had already used the method described by Thomas.

Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019) | Replace and replace back

Thomas T. Frost — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:06:00 +0000

Forum: General technical issues
Topic: Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019)
Poster: Thomas T. Frost
Post title: Replace and replace back

I think I would just replace all the ’ with " first and then replace all the "s to ’s.

Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019) | Java

Samuel Murray — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 08:58:00 +0000

Forum: General technical issues
Topic: Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019)
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: Java

[quote]Hans Lenting wrote:
[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:
[quote]Hans Lenting wrote:
Who can share a regular expression...[/quote]
In which program or in which dialect of regex? [/quote]
Oops, you're right again. I need it for Java (used by CafeTran Espresso). [/quote]

According to this site:
[url removed]

This works:
FIND: (’)([^s])
REPLACE: "$2

Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019) | Good point

CafeTran Trainer — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 08:51:00 +0000

Forum: General technical issues
Topic: Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019)
Poster: CafeTran Trainer
Post title: Good point

[quote]Samuel Murray wrote:

[quote]Hans Lenting wrote:
Who can share a regular expression...[/quote]
In which program or in which dialect of regex? [/quote]

Oops, you're right again. I need it for Java (used by CafeTran Espresso).

Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019) | Which dialect?

Samuel Murray — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 08:50:00 +0000

Forum: General technical issues
Topic: Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019)
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: Which dialect?

[quote]Hans Lenting wrote:
Who can share a regular expression...[/quote]
In which program or in which dialect of regex?

E.g. in Microsoft Word, this works:
FIND: (’)([!s])
REPLACE: "\2

[Edited at 2023-08-10 08:55 GMT]

Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019)

CafeTran Trainer — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 08:48:00 +0000

Forum: General technical issues
Topic: Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019)
Poster: CafeTran Trainer

Who can share a regular expression to replace the 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019) with a straight double quotation mark when it's not followed by an “s”?

Thank you in advance!

Hans