Thursday, January 28, 2016

Re: "Exploding" a paragraph into individual lines



On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Rik <amphiboly@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 10:56:59 PM UTC-5, Chris Collision wrote:
> Well-formatted text isn't the same thing as natural language; I do not think this is doomed to fail.  Is there a way to use paragraph / sentence motions to do this "exploding"?  I have played around for a few minutes but have not had much luck.  Perhaps an expert can take this farther.
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> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Rik <amph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 12:49:39 PM UTC-5, Chris Lott wrote:
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> > I'd like to take a paragraph like the following:
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> > This is a paragraph. Wow! What do I do now?
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> > And break it into individual lines, ala:
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> > This is a paragraph.
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> > Wow!
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> > What do I do now?
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> > StackExchange revealed this regex that seems to work well matching the proper lines:
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> > [.!?][])"']*\($\|[ ]\)
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> > So I can do this:
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> > :%s/[.!?][])"']*\($\|[ ]\)/XXX\r\r/g
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> > But obviously need something where XXX is!
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> Regex cannot handle the complexity of natural language, and thus you are doomed to fail, Mr.
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> Lott.
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1. Please do not top-post.

That would be parsed by the proposed regex as
  1.
  Please do not top-post.

Doomed to fail, Mr. Lott.

That would be parsed as:
  Doomed to fail, Mr.
  Lott.

Do you see any problem here?

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Please forgive me for top-posting: I forgot that gmail does that by default.  Won't happen again.  Would this incredibly difficult counterexample of yours be solved by the venerable convention of using two spaces after sentence-ending punctuation?


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