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Regex to replace 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019)
Thread poster: Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
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Aug 10, 2023

Who can share a regular expression to replace the 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019) with a straight double quotation mark when it's not followed by an “s”?

Thank you in advance!

Hans
 
Samuel Murray
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Which dialect? Aug 10, 2023

Hans Lenting wrote:
Who can share a regular expression...

In which program or in which dialect of regex?

E.g. in Microsoft Word, this works:
FIND: (’)([!s])
REPLACE: "\2

[Edited at 2023-08-10 08:55 GMT]

Hans Lenting
 
Hans Lenting
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Good point Aug 10, 2023

Samuel Murray wrote:

Hans Lenting wrote:
Who can share a regular expression...

In which program or in which dialect of regex?


Oops, you're right again. I need it for Java (used by CafeTran Espresso).
 
Samuel Murray
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Java Aug 10, 2023

Hans Lenting wrote:
Samuel Murray wrote:
Hans Lenting wrote:
Who can share a regular expression...

In which program or in which dialect of regex?

Oops, you're right again. I need it for Java (used by CafeTran Espresso).


According to this site:
https://www.freeformatter.com/java-regex-tester.html

This works:
FIND: (’)([^s])
REPLACE: "$2
 
Thomas T. Frost
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Replace and replace back Aug 10, 2023

I think I would just replace all the ’ with " first and then replace all the "s to ’s.
 
Hans Lenting
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Later Aug 10, 2023

Samuel Murray wrote:

According to this site:
https://www.freeformatter.com/java-regex-tester.html

This works:
FIND: (’)([^s])
REPLACE: "$2


Thank you, Samuel. I'll test it later. I had already used the method described by Thomas.
 
Tony M
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Word's own S-&-R Aug 10, 2023

Normally, you can just use Search & Replace all ' with ', and provided you have smart quotes turned on AND the correct language set, it will just do it automatically. It doesn't matter whether or not there is a trailing 's', all that matters is whether or not their is a leading space.
 
Thomas T. Frost
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Hans doesn't want to change ’s Aug 10, 2023

Tony M wrote:

Normally, you can just use Search & Replace all ' with ', and provided you have smart quotes turned on AND the correct language set, it will just do it automatically. It doesn't matter whether or not there is a trailing 's', all that matters is whether or not their is a leading space.


Yes, but Hans doesn't want to change ’s to "s. What I understood he wanted was e.g.:

Change ‘Eric’s new house was falling apart’
to "Eric’s new house was falling apart"
rather than "Eric"s new house was falling apart".
 


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