User:Chris the speller/regular

Regular expressions useful with WikEd

Each example has a line to put into the search box, followed by one or more lines (choose one) to put into the replacement box.

• For the search box, take all the non-blank text, avoiding preceding or trailing blanks (\x20 is used instead of blanks).
• For the replacement box, take all characters that appear between ++ and ++, as the preceding or trailing blanks may be important.

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Change "3 ft tall" to use the convert template

also "2 ft wide" and so on. If converting to other than meters, change parameter 3 in the replacement text.

It also finds "3-ft tall", "3 ft tall", etc., and the search may yield false positives.

([0123456789,.]+)[ ]{0,6}-{0,1}\x20{0,1}(ft)-{0,1}\x20{0,1}([hig]{0,4}[wide]{0,4}[long]{0,4}[tal]{0,4}[dep]{0,4}[thick]{0,5})

++{{convert|$1|$2|m|abbr=on|adj=mid|$3}}++     changes "it is 3 ft tall" to "it is 3 ft tall (0.91 m)"

++{{convert|$1|$2|m|adj=mid|-$3}}++     changes "the 3 ft tall statue" to "the 3-foot-tall (0.91 m) statue"

You may then also want to move " statue" into the template following "tall", to produce "the 3-foot-tall statue (0.91 m)".

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Swap two words (position the insertion point just before the two words before searching)

(\S+)(\x20)(\S+)

++$3$2$1++     Change "apples rotten" to "rotten apples"

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Remove duplicated word

(\x20)(\w+)\x20\2

++$1$2++     Change "Stop that that thief!" to "Stop that thief!"

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Find unspaced comma, period, question mark, etc.

([,\.\?\;\)\:])(\w)

++$1 $2++     insert the trailing blank. Avoid adding spaces to URLs!

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