Hello Monks,

I've created a find/replace script that works successfully by finding <TList.Bullet><TList.Item>sometext</TList.Item></TList.Bullet> and replacing it with <ul><li>sometext</li></ul>.

See code excerpt below:

my %findReplaceH = (
q[<TList.Bullet>]=>q[<ul>],
q[</TList.Bullet>]=>q[</ul>],
q[<TList.Item>]=>q[<li>],
q[</TList.Item>]=>q[</li>],

However, in the output, I'm now getting blank spaces between tags, such as <ul> space <li> and </li> space </ul>.

Can I add something to this line in the script, q[<TList.Bullet>]=>q[<ul>], so the blank space will no longer appear after <ul>? Or, do I need to do the find/replace, and then remove the blank space?

Thanks for your help!

In reply to Remove blank space during find/replace by Melk

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