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nolanlawson/BadSpellcheckRegexFilter.groovy

Created January 24, 2013 11:32
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Gist for the best regex for escaping bad spellcheck suggestions in Groovy. Should be easily portable to JavaScript and Java, or just paste into groovysh.
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BadSpellcheckRegexFilter.groovy
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
// note that you won't need to escape the $ in Java
Pattern filterBadSpellcheckPattern = Pattern.compile("[:.,;!?\\)\\('\"\\-\u2026\u00AE\u00A9]\$")
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also: \u00B3\u00BB\u2013\u2014\u2019\u201C\u201D\u2020\u2022

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