Re: "Exploding" a paragraph into individual lines

On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 12:49:39 PM UTC-5, Chris Lott wrote:
> I'd like to take a paragraph like the following:
>
> This is a paragraph. Wow! What do I do now?
>
> And break it into individual lines, ala:
>
> This is a paragraph.
> Wow!
> What do I do now?
>
> StackExchange revealed this regex that seems to work well matching the proper lines:
> [.!?][])"']*\($\|[ ]\)
>
> So I can do this:
> :%s/[.!?][])"']*\($\|[ ]\)/XXX\r\r/g
>
> But obviously need something where XXX is!
>
> c

Regex cannot handle the complexity of natural language, and thus you are doomed to fail, Mr.

Lott.

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