grep query to find full stop followed by 1 space

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November 1, 2017
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Hello

Could someone help me with grep queries please?

I want to find all full stops with a single space after it, and then replace it with a full stop and 2 spaces.

I want to find all full stops with 3 spaces after it, and then replace it with a full stop and 2 spaces.

Many thanks

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choc_luverAuthor

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I did have trouble with a few of the suggestions, for example I have indented my page numbers using the indentation function yet this is picked up when I try to find spaces in a variety of ways so I am too nervous to do a change all!!

Thanks for all the help, I still have inconsistencies in my text and deciding whether to worry about it or not

winterm

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If you could be a bit more specific, ideally - with screenshots, I bet decent solution is possible.

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choc_luverAuthor

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Well that wasn't the response I was expecting! I am obviously very old school, I was taught 2 spaces after a full stop and never knew there was a whole discussion regarding it!

Thanks @nicholas@paperchefs. I had tried to match in text and it wasn't recognising them properly so I will try again. But now I think I will change everything to one space, many thanks for the input and information everyone!

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nicolas7

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Are you specifically looking for a Grep way to do this? Is easy enough to do in the Find/Change without Grep.

First delete all extra spaces replacing all "(2 spaces)" with "(1 space)" until there's nothing left to replace (that'll clear up all >=3 spaces as well). Then replace all ".(one space)" with ".(2 spaces)".

I frequently run a replace all "(2 spaces)" with "(1 space)" multiple times on documents to clean up any text I've pasted in.

Two spaces after period is incorrect IMHO, though.