[3.3.x] Translations • How to find with regex the, of and a, but not a href

In Czech language we have typography rule, that prepositions shouldn't be on the end of the line. I tried to find out if it also applies in English, but I guess not, as I found about it this reddit post.

I would like to correct language pack to follow the rule and replace whitespace after prepositions with  

To make example for English speakers – I would like to find in language file (e.g. phpBB-3.3.12\phpBB3\language\en\install.php) following words (I will replace it later with Czech words):

the, of, a

I created the simple regular expression (for Notepad++):

Find: \b(the|a|of)\s

Replace with: $1 

and it seems to work, but it also find a href. So the question is, how to find with regex the, of, a but not a href?

Statistics: Posted by leschek — Sat Jul 20, 2024 2:55 pm

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