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Search for period without 2 spaces afterwards.

Odin Mayland's Avatar Odin Mayland
I'm looking for grammar errors in articles. I found this example: break-ins.Exterior

I'm told there are more like that so I wanted to try DBr to fox them.

This regular expression did not work to find that instance of a period without 2 spaces afterward:
\.(?![ ]{2})

I get the error: The database query is invalid. Try changing the search.

WWhat am I going wrong?
Peter van Westen's Avatar Peter van Westen ADMIN
Working fine for me. So it is probably down to your database version/setup not allowing negative lookahead pr something else.

Try to simplify the search, like:
\.(?!  )
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Odin Mayland's Avatar Odin Mayland
Still get the same error.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ghvpjeygec7qgpw/Screenshot%202023-06-05%20at%203.18.35%20PM.png?dl=0
Peter van Westen's Avatar Peter van Westen ADMIN
What are you actually trying to achieve with this search?
Do you want to replace it with something?
Maybe there is a different way to go about this...
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Odin Mayland's Avatar Odin Mayland
I want to find all instances of a . without 2 spaced after it and add in the 2 spaces.
Peter van Westen's Avatar Peter van Westen ADMIN
A weird thing to want to do, but you could do:
\. ?([^ ])
Replace with:
.  \1
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Odin Mayland's Avatar Odin Mayland
Its an older client that prefers 2 spaces after a period. If you learned to type on a typewriter, 2 spaces was the norm.

Thanks for your help.
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