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Reputation: 2134

Regex to remove consecutive sets of 1-2 characters separated by spaces

I am regex impaired, so I apologize for that, and want to thank, in advance, whoever can help me with this.

I have text as follows:

real text that i want to keep i e 2 2 1 i h i i i E h i L h R 9 more real text
i e 1 i tr L h R 1 i L ? i j 1 more real text that i want to keep d i j 0 etc...

You can see the sections of "junk" text that occur - these are what I want to remove. I'm not necessarily looking for 100% accuracy, but I'd like a regex that can get rid of most of these sections. I consider junk text to be any section with four or more consecutive occurrences of one or two characters, followed by a space.

As noted in the tags, I am working with c#. Thanks again.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 239

Answers (2)

splash
splash

Reputation: 13327

Just another regex solution: (\s+(\S{1,2}(?=\s))){2,}

Upvotes: 2

rrrr-o
rrrr-o

Reputation: 2516

Something like this?

\b(.{1,2}\s){4,}

You can obviously substitute the fullstop/period for a more exact match if you know what characters to allow.

Upvotes: 3

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