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[burntmatch2]

I am needing help with this.

Only when there is more than two consecutive spaces, it truncates
replacing them with a SPACE + ANSISPACE like '  '.

So like,

EXAMPLE BEFORE: The quick brown fox.
WOULD BE AFTER: The quick brown fox.

BEFORE: The quick brown fox.
AFTER: The quick  brown fox.

BEFORE: The quick brown fox.
AFTER: The quick  brown fox.

BEFORE: The quick brown fox.
AFTER: The quick  brown fox.

Should create such results.

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Only when there is more than two consecutive spaces,

Given your examples, that should be "more than one".

it truncates replacing them with a SPACE + ANSISPACE like '  '.

"ANSISPACE" is nonsense. It is a no(n)-break(ing) space, as its character
entity reference indicates.

s = s.replace(/(\ )\ +/g, "$1 ");

(Escape sequences are only there for legibility; the backslashes may be
omitted.)


HTH

PointedEars

 

[burntmatch2]

s = s.replace(/(\ )\ +/g, "$1 ");

Thank you, very efficient

 

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.javascript message <[email protected]
legroups.com>, Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:51:22, (e-mail address removed) posted:

Only when there is more than two consecutive spaces, it truncates
replacing them with a SPACE + ANSISPACE like ' &nbsp;'.

I assume that English is not your first language.

This does what you ask for : S.replace(/ {3,}/g, " $nbsp;")
This does what you want : S.replace(/ {2,}/g, " $nbsp;")

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