Regular expressions

(“regexps,” “regexp,” “regex”)

Links to helpful pages

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/RegularExpression
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Replacing-Match.html

Recipes

Replace single spaces after end of sentence with two spaces.

Type the following:

[M-x] query-replace-regexp [RET]
\. \([A-Z]\) [RET]
.  \1 [RET]

Replacement trick ADC used when writing SPM table report tool

(from here)

In output file (“taldaemon_i_plus.td.txt” e.g.), AC used emacs regexp (regular expression) to reformat BA's, and just copied a rectangle to get region descriptions:

[M-x] replace-regexp [RET]
^.*Brodmann area.\([0-9]+\).* [RET]
BA\1

Visual Cognitive Neuroscience

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Regular expressions

Links to helpful pages

Recipes

Replace single spaces after end of sentence with two spaces.

Replacement trick ADC used when writing SPM table report tool