Converting a single space between sentences with two spaces.

Hi,
I'd like to convert all single whitespaces after a sentence to two whitespaces, e.g. This is a sentence! The next sentence is separated by two spaces. This would result in the conventional style of two spaces between sentences, unlike html style. I want to find either a .,?, or ! followed by one whitespace, followed by a capital letter, so: "[.|?|!] [A-Z]". Then I want to just replace this with the same thing except two spaces. If I do this:
                    textString = textString.replaceAll(". [A-Z]", ". [A-Z]");
it finds these matches, but it literally prints out these:
How about DeLillo[.|?|!] [A-Z] still haven't read him[.|?|!] [A-Z]r Saul Bellow[.|?|!] [A-Z] told you I like Herzog a lot...maybe
thanks for your help!
-Won

You don't want to add a space if there is already a second space. The following will turn any number of spaces after the sentence into two spaces. Note if the whitespaces include a \n\n (paragraph mark) it will turn everything into one long paragraph.
replaceAll("([\\.\\?!])\\s+", "$1  ");

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