Regex to find space after two-letter words at the of the line and replace

[Bachelar]

Hi, y'all!




I hope you're doing well.



I've come to you to seek help with the following. I would like to use regex to find space after one- or two-letter words at the of every line – any line ending not only with paragraph mark or manual line-break – and replace that space (and only space, words should remain unchanged).


From my inquires, I've gathered that Word wildcards will not be able to perform the requested action – although if it is not true, I'm of course open for clarification. Thus, I want to use regex via VBScript.RegExp object. I think, I have the regex pattern

\b\w+\b\K\s+

(with the help of regex101), but I'm still unsure on that.

To conclude, I don't know how to put together a script to search and replace with regex and I'm not sure if it's possible to get the space after one- or two-letter words at the end of every line.



It seems weird, I know, and if you want I can explain why I would like a script like that in details.


As always, thank you in advance for any input.

[macropod]

Originally Posted by Bachelar

I would like to use regex to find space after one- or two-letter words at the of every line – any line ending not only with paragraph mark or manual line-break – and replace that space (and only space, words should remain unchanged).
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To conclude, I don't know how to put together a script to search and replace with regex and I'm not sure if it's possible to get the space after one- or two-letter words at the end of every line.

To begin with, Word does not work with lines - it works with paragraphs, etc. That said, for a workaround see:
https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...cter-line.html

Moreover, it's far from apparent what you want to do with those spaces once you've found them.

[Bachelar]

Originally Posted by macropod

To begin with, Word does not work with lines - it works with paragraphs, etc. That said, for a workaround see:
https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...cter-line.html

Moreover, it's far from apparent what you want to do with those spaces once you've found them.

Apologies for not being clear. What I intend to do with found spaces is to replace them with non-breaking spaces.


I've also read the thread you linked and found it useful. I know that what I want can be achieved – at least somewhat – with Find/Replace. The problem with this approach is that it can only replace spaces after all one- or two-letter words, which breaks formatting.

[macropod]

So what is the point of dragging those words to the next line? You also need to be aware that any subsequent edits to the document are liable to mess up the affected paragraphs.

The link I posted also shows how one might approach finding line ends without Find/Replace.