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Can I remove spaces between only Chinese characters?
I working with several massive bilingual texts in English and Traditional Chinese, but the Chinese characters have spaces between them...here's a small sample:
"The Yin institutions were, under the Chou, more or less continued by the feudal state of Sung 宋. In the Tso chuan, Ch'êng 15 (Tso chuan chu shu, 27.26a-b; L. 388), where the officers of Sung are described, the following names are enumerated: yu-shih 右 師, tso-shih 左 師, ssŭ-ma司 馬, ssŭ-t'u 司 徒, ssŭ-ch'êng司 城, ta-ssŭ-k'ou 大 司 寇, hsiao-ssŭ-k'ou 小 司 寇, ta-tsai 大 宰, and hsiao-tsai 小 宰." This makes it very hard to search for Chinese characters in the text, which is the primary reason I'm collecting them. Is there anyway to find and replace ONLY those spaces in between the Chinese characters? I know that I can use [⺀-■]{1,} [⺀-■]{1,} with wildcards to find spaces between Chinese characters, but we're talking about thousands of cases of this and I'm wondering if I can somehow use Find and Replace to do this all at once. Thank you in advance for any help you might be able to provide. |
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Assuming your wildcard Find expression is correct, you should be able to use:
Find = ([⺀-■]) ([⺀-■]) Replace = \1\2
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Thank you!
I tried to figure it out for a while before I asked for help. It worked perfectly, thank you very much
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