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<p>Many thanks Steve, it's working now. The problem was the operator needing to be ~> instead of =>.</p>
<p>The space after the dot in the pattern was intentional - in my example of "A.B. Street" I did it in two steps, firstly to "A.B Street" and secondly from there to "A B Street". I was doing that because I wanted to avoid double spaces, but now I know that is taken care of later, things are a simpler.</p>
<p>Colin</p>
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<p>On 2014-05-25 12:49, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:</p>
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<pre>Originally subst was a straight forward string replacement. So
${name|subst:.=> }
would replace each dot with a space. Also because multiple spaces are
combined into one elsewhere this actually has the effect you want in
this case.
Regular expressions were added later and you need to use ~> instead
of => to indicate this. So this will work:
${name|subst:\.+~> }
It may just be an email formating issue, but in your email there is a
space after the '.'; make sure that there isn't one in your style
file.
..Steve
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