Add additional space to string at every existing space

[Retsied]

Hello, I'm trying to make a script that edits a layer's text by adding another space at every instance there is already an existing space. 

"Edit spaces" to

"Edit  spaces"

Any help much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[lambiloon]

Hi it can be done with Actions you need to record it...Regards

[JJMack]

How can it be done with an action.  Actions can not use logic to retrieve text layers and search for spaces and insert additional spaces.  And if  you double the amount of spaces how would an action known if the revised text will fit on canvas.  How would an action know how many text layer there are  or where in the layer stack text layers are.  A Photoshop script may be able to do what they want to do. It would not be easy to program such a Photoshop script. If it is not something  they would use all the time they would save time manually editing their text layers.

[jazz-y]

in action it colud be done throw find&replace menu of text item

[JJMack]

Yes you can record find and replace.  How well  replacing a space with two spaces can get very messy when there are consecutive spaces in the text also expending the length of text with extra spaces can result  with text not fitting within the text area  verbiage will not be displayed in the document. IMO Find and replace should be used manually not in an action. Text can be quite complex to the deal with in automation it above my pay grade.

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[JJMack]

You can use Google search to search for scripts poster on this site for editing text layers.  Some have been posted. This site search is useless for searching for things like that. Use Google.

[Chuck Uebele]

Try this:

var textI = app.activeDocument.activeLayer.textItem
textI.contents = textI.contents.replace(/ /g,"  ");

[Retsied]

Hmm, this is seemingly exactly what I want, however, doesn't seem to be working for me. Did this actually work for you? Something that's interesting is I copy/pasted the below code from my file, and the number of spaces between the " " pasted as only one, despite in the code having several. Curious..

var myText = doc.activeLayer.textItem
myText = myText.contents.replace(/ /g," ");

[Chuck Uebele]

You only have one space between the quotes, you need two. What you are doing is replacing a single space with another single space.

[Retsied]

Chuck, that's what I'm saying. It pasted here with only 1 space but in my actual code there are several. This is what makes me wonder if this method indeed works. Thanks 

[Chuck Uebele]

Do you only have one space between the forward slashes - / /, and two spaces between the quotes - "  "? It's working fine for me.

[rob day]

"Edit spaces" to

"Edit spaces"

It sounds like you are trying to get more word spacing? If that's the case it would be easier to manipulate the word spacing via the Paragraph Style.

So the default Word Spacing is 80 |100 |133

You can increase the Word Spacing and keep the same Letter Spacing: