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Hugh
Hugh

Reputation: 11

replace space before/after certain characters

It's conventional to have spaces before punctuation symbols in French.

I've got texts like this:

Paul m'a dit « Bonjour ! »

I'd like a jquery/javascript function to replace regular spaces with non-breaking spaces before the following characters:

! : ? … ; »

and after this character:

«

Could anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1534

Answers (4)

Rajar
Rajar

Reputation: 274

My Typescript helper function with the narrow no-break space code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space#Width_variation):

export function replaceNonBreaking(text: string): string {
  if (!text) { return text; }
  return text.replace(/ (!|:|\?|…|;|»)/g, ' $1').replace('« ', '« ');
}

Upvotes: 0

Roboroads
Roboroads

Reputation: 1709

Like this (EDIT: Tested, works)

function replaceNonBreaking(text) {
    return text.replace(/ (!|:|\?|…|;|»)/g, " $1").replace('« ', '« ');
}

Replacing all occurrences of "[space][special-char]" to "[non-breaking space][that special-char]" in the string.

Upvotes: 2

Andy
Andy

Reputation: 63514

There's probably a far better regex way than this one (regex is my downfall), but this one works:

str = str.replace(/\s([!:\?…;»])/g, function (el1, el2) {
    return ' ' + el2;
}).replace(/(«)\s/g, function (el1, el2) {
    return el2 + ' ';
});

DEMO

Upvotes: 1

berty
berty

Reputation: 2206

You can do something like :

var str = 'Paul m\'a dit : « Bonjour ! »';
var corrected_str = str.replace(/ (!|\:|\?|…|;|»)/g, ' $1', str).replace('« ', '«&nbsp');

(I think you should add a non-breaking space before « too.)

Upvotes: 0

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