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Grep expression to find repeated phrases

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    • September 3, 2019 at 3:07 am #1183493
      Peggy Mikkelsen
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      Hello everyone
      I need a grep expression that finds repeated phrases, not just repeated words. For example, the words “for the” was repeated twice in a document and missed during spell check “for the for the first time”. Is there a grep expression that can find duplicate phrases.

    • September 3, 2019 at 9:30 am #14324199
      Theunis De Jong
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      Yes there is!

      You do not mention what GREP you use to find duplicate words, but it may be something like this:

      (\w+) \1

      — search for start of word, a number of “word” characters, followed by a space and that word again. To find two words repeating, expand the parenthesized phrase to

      (\w+ \w+) \1

      so it will match “word word” followed by a space and that first match again.

    • September 3, 2019 at 10:36 am #14324198
      Peggy Mikkelsen
      Member

      Thank you so much, the second grep expression worked fine.

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