Please help me DELETE SPACES in text

Perform a search and replace using ' b ' as the search query and 'b' as the replacement text. Repeat as desired.

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The difficulty here is to delete all the 'extra' spaces without deleting the 'needed' spaces.

Press command-; to show the invisible characters (including all the spaces), and check the ends of words and sentences and other places where there should be spaces when you're done. If you find multiple spaces at these locations, you should be able to fix things in three passes of find/change.

Press command-F to open the Find/Change dialogue.

Pass 1:
Find: enter two spaces
Change: enter ##
Click Change All.
OK the warning and the alert telling how many changes were made.

Pass 2:
Find: enter one space
Change: clear this box.
Click Change All.
OK the warning and the alert telling how many changes were made.

Pass 3:
Find: enter ##
Change: enter one space
Click Change All.
OK the warning and the alert telling how many changes were made.

That should do it.

Regards,
Barry

Copy the Internet text into TextEdit and then Cut and Paste it into AppleWorks.

I guess that you copied text using UTF16 encoding.
In such kind of datas, for the old ASCII set of characters, the modern encoding insert a nil byte before the old ASCII value.
AppleWorks replace these nil characters by space ones.

Try to apply this script before pasting

--

--=====
on run
 set en_texte to the clipboard as text
 --set en_texte to my supprime(en_texte,ASCII character(0))
 set the clipboard to en_texte
end run
--=====
(*
removes every occurences of d in text t
*)
on supprime(t, d)
 local oTIDs, l
 set oTIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters
 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
 set l to text items of t
 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
 set t to l as text
 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oTIDs
 return t
end supprime
--=====
--

If the result is OK, you may replace it by my good old Huge friend :

--

--=====
on run
 set the clipboard to the clipboard as text
end run
--=====
--

If the result is always odd, try to remove the two minus character which I typed in front of
set en_texte to my supprime(en_texte,ASCII character(0)).

The script will become :

--

--=====
on run
 set en_texte to the clipboard as text
 set en_texte to my supprime(en_texte,ASCII character(0))
 set the clipboard to en_texte
end run
--=====
(*
removes every occurences of d in text t
*)
on supprime(t, d)
 local oTIDs, l
 set oTIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters
 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
 set l to text items of t
 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
 set t to l as text
 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oTIDs
 return t
end supprime
--=====
--

This time, the extraneous nil bytes will be removed and you will get a clean text.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 19 février 2011 17:34:43