Reply To: GREP Tricks: Using LookBehind and LookAhead expressions to convert a SPACE into a NON-BREAK SPACE

Aaron Troia

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December 9, 2014 at 2:50 pm #72145
Aaron Troia
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I’m wondering why you pipped and wrote out all the lookbehinds and lookaheads, the lookahead is non-greedy, unlike the lookbehind, so you could’ve done something like this

(?<=\d) (?=mile|gallon|kg|day)

or if you need both to be non-greedy, I use this more in HTML/CSS after ePub Export, but you could use Keep (\K)

\d+\K (?=mile|gallon|kg|day)

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