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Regular expressions

(“regexps,” “regexp,” “regex”)

Recipes

Replace single spaces after end of sentence with two spaces.

<2015.6.24>

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 [RET]

Emacs regexp for removing newline characters from text copied from Adobe PDF file

[Originally from Anthony's science.txt file, entry dated 2015-09-03]

To remove all Windows newlines:

M-x replace-regexp 
C-q C-j RET
RET

To add a newline before heading names, e.g. “I.” or “A.”

M-x replace-regexp 
.\. RET
C-q C-j \& RET
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