regEx to remove spaces ?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi JB,

Again, no regex. I looked into regex, but I can't find how to replace  
quoted strings without knowing the whole string in advance. It would  
be great if someone came up with a regex solution for this. In the  
mean time, this function seems to do the job quite nicely:

function decentQuotes theStr
   set the itemDel to space
   repeat for each word myWord in theStr
     if number of items of myWord > 1
     then put quote & word 1 to -1 of (char 2 to -2 of myWord) & ¬
     quote & space after myNewStr else put myWord & space after myNewStr
   end repeat
   return char 1 to -2 of myNewStr
end decentQuotes

Note that it assumes that strings are always surrounded by pairs of  
quotes. Grammar errors are not taken care of.

Best,

Mark

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Op 17-mei-2006, om 11:45 heeft jbv het volgende geschreven:

> Hi list,
>
> Is it possible to use regEx to remove spaces before and
> after quotes, and, if yes, how ?
>
> Example :
>     my " beautiful " laundrette
> becomes
>     my "beautiful" laundrette
>
> Thanks,
> JB