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Indesign CS5.

I'm trying to perfect a regular expression to quickly replace the single-space from raw text to the EN space. I'm using the following:

(w)([.!?])(['"]0,1) 1,(['"]0,1)(u)

Replacing to:

$1$2$3~>$4$5

This should have captured and replaced the space with an EN space the following tests:

work. To
work! To
work." To
work.' 'To
work." "To

etc. I recognize it's not perfect as work.' "To would get through it, but that would be picked up in the editing sweeps. Please ignore that and similar conditions.

My problem is the replacement is coming out as...

work. $5o

The RegEx is finding text perfectly. If it finds work." "To, it replaces the space with an EN-space perfectly. Anything else isn't replacing correctly.

It appears that the (['"]0,1) expressions, since they're capturing nothing, are not having their relevant $# (e.g., $3) variable set. However, if that's the case, I expected to see work. $4$5o as the replacement for the work. To test.

Is there a workaround for this, or am I condemned to running a series of RegEx replacements?

If you need to change a regular space s for an EN space I think is more simple:

(?<=.|!|"|')s(?=.|"|')

search al the regular spaces s preceded by a dot . , !, " or ' and behind a character ., " or '

and change it for an EN space

~>

Actually the second part is redundant, because " and ' are also characters, it must be:

(?<=.|!|"|')s(?=.)

If the rule is the s behind a letter or " or ' :

(?<=.|!|"|')s(?=u|l|"|')

If the letter is always an uppercase :

(?<=.|!|"|')s(?=u|"|')