Counting Characters to add non-breaking spaces

[Potts Jeff]

i have a regex:

(?<=(\b(tsp|tbsp|oz|fl oz|cup|pt|qt|gal|lb|lbs|g|kg|L|mL|ds|pn|smdg|min|dr\.|lg\.|med\.|sm\.|lg|petit|sq\.|loaf|can|box|stalks|tin|square)\b))\s

I'd like to find each word in the list, count the characters and then add the appropriate number of characters to pad the line with a total of ten characters made up of the found word and a number of non breaking spaces to equal 10 characters total.

Example;

lbs       Text

kg        Text

smdg   Text

Can someone point me to an example or provide some direction

Thanks

Jeff

[Mark Munz]

I generally don't like to go super specific in my matches if you can avoid it, but I am using your starting point here with specifics on measurements.

Once I have the chunk to work with (via If Text Matches)

I remove the space at the end and add 10 x's.

I then use the anchor (^) and capture 10 characters, then match the remaining text (to throw away)

Finally, I convert 'x' to non-breaking space (option-space)

You can simplify this by just using non-breaking spaces in the first Regex Find and Replace, then removing the last action,

but since spaces are (currently) difficult to see, it will make it harder to understand what is going on w/o at least a comment.

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