Thread: Detecting that previous character doesn't exist (i.e., present character is first in document)
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Old 07-20-2016, 05:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Guessed View Post
For the job you describe here it would be WAY faster to do find/replaces instead of looping characters.
eg with wildcards on find "([! ])\[\[" and replace with "\1 [[" to ensure there is always a space in front of any opening double square brackets
That's great advice. Thank you!

EDIT: but it adds a space between deleted content and punctuation outside the deleted content, so I might end up with, for example, [[4]] , instead of [[4]], which is what is desired.

Maybe a cheap fix would be to only add whitespace (where it doesn't exist) between underlined text and [[, or between ]] and underlined text? That way it would at least fix [[this]]sort of thing when [[this]] sort of thing is desired.
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