Re: getting rid of multiple consecutive blanks ?

Quoting John Markley <[email protected]>:

>
> Stop, hold off.  There is some problem with the Web Text Cleaner
> pScript I posted earlier that I don't fully understand yet.  Do not
> use it.

OK, the problem, which I still don't fully understand, resides in  
having the two processes linked, *and* running them using the pedit  
"Script Memo" ESC & command, plus a conflict I had in my own setup.   
But they work fine separately, so here is what you can do.

  There are a bunch of ways to run pScripts with pToolSet, but I'm  
assuming that you are running only peditPro.  So, do the following-

1) Put the two pScripts below in your pScriptPad (the pad carries the  
label #1, but in fact it is the only pScriptPad).  If you are able it  
is best to copy from this email and paste into your pScriptPad rather  
than manually transcribing, to avoid errors.

2)  Open a spacey web page text in pedit.

3)  Open menu, select R1, select "Script Memo" (or just do "ESC &").

4)  Type "LFd" (without the "") into the dialog box, then type ":"  
(without the "") or tap the D:, and the pScript will run. (this  
assumes you have no other pScripts whose identifier name starts with  
"LFd".

   The pScript opens the pedit find'n'replace (ESC f), sets it to  
start at the top, wrap, and unchecks RegExp, puts a LineFeed in the  
find field, and puts a single space in the replace field and then hits  
the Find/Repl button, then AllR, then Done. This will remove all  
linefeeds.

5)  Open menu, select R1, select "Script Memo" again.

6)  Type "SPd" (without the "") into the dialog box, then type ":"  
(without the "") or tap the D:, and the pScript will run. (this  
assumes you have no other pScripts whose identifier name starts with  
"SPd".

The opens find'n'replace, checks RegExp on, puts "  *" in the find  
field and a single space " " (/xs/xs*) in the replace field, and runs  
the All Replace. This will replace all multiple spaces with single  
spaces.
The final result after both pScripts should be a clean, compact,  
non-spacey text.

If you don't want to use the pScripts you can of course do these f&r's  
manually.

Make sure beforehand that you do not have the * character selected as  
your pedit ESC character as that would confuse the RegExp  
implementation of "  *".



{LFdelete::
/&runtimeInit[]
/xEpro f
/xEpro T/xEpro W/xEpro R/xEpro r
/p10
/&script$[@@LFd2@@]}
{LFd2::
/&tap i[080,080]
/&script$[@@LFd3@@]}
{LFd3::
/p32
/xEpro f  A
/&script$[@@LFd4@@]}
{WTC4:: d}


{SPdelete::
/&runtimeInit[]
/xEpro f
/xEpro T/xEpro W/xEpro R
/xs/xs *
/&script$[@@SPd2@@]}
{SPd2::
/&tap i[080,080]
/&script$[@@SPd3@@]}
{SPd3::
/p32
/xEpro f A
/&script$[@@SPd4@@]}
{SPd4:: d}


   Eventually I'll figure out how to link these together to run as one  
without the problems I was seeing, but not tonight.

Addendum - just received your recent post.  See how these two do.  If  
we have to change to deal with tabs we will.

   ~ John





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