How To Automate This Task?

[EpheMeroN]

I have a subtitle file for a documentary I just bought called Restrepo. The English sub file, for whatever reason, is missing the letter "v" from almost any word containing it. Example: "Move here e eryone!"

Is there a way to automate inserting a "v" into any word that has a space between it? Otherwise, I'll have to manually go through over 1,000 subtitles to locate this mishap. How does this even happen?

[Groucho2004]

What format is the file? Can you upload it somewhere?

[setarip_old]

@EpheMeroN How does this even happen?Remember, you asked ;>}

It never happens with the actual subtitles included on a commercially released disc.

It, or similar things, have been noted to happen (and recently with greater frequency) with downloaded subtitles - whether intentionally done by the same type of sadists that cereate viruses "for kicks", or by movie industry "moles" attempting to create the impression that downloaded subtitles are not safe to use. Their logic is that the subtitles of a movie are, just like the video and audio, copyrighted material...

[Usedocne]

Aegisub (http://www.aegisub.org/)'s spell checker should get it done (or at least most of it.)

[manono]

It, or similar things, have been noted to happen (and recently with greater frequency) with downloaded subtitles - whether intentionally done by the same type of sadists that cereate viruses "for kicks", or by movie industry "moles" attempting to create the impression that downloaded subtitles are not safe to use. Their logic is that the subtitles of a movie are, just like the video and audio, copyrighted material...
Much more plausible would be someone hitting the space bar rather than the 'v' when performing the OCR. It's just sloppy work rather than a conspiracy.

I'd also go with a spellcheck to catch most, if not all, of it.

[space1999]

It's just sloppy work rather than a conspiracy.

Grey's Law teaches:

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

[Chetwood]

"Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity."

[space1999]

"Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity."

"Never attribute to technology that which can be attributed to magic."

[ M e r l i n ]

Generally speaking, Arthur C. Clarke was not a scientist, but just a fiction writer; turning on my blunt mode, he was also an idiot, like Asimov, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, and (last but not least) Richard Dawkins.