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 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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> > StackExchange revealed this regex that seems to work well matching the proper lines:
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> > [.!?][])"']*\($\|[ ]\)
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> > :%s/[.!?][])"']*\($\|[ ]\)/XXX\r\r/g
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> Regex cannot handle the complexity of natural language, and thus you are doomed to fail, Mr.
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1. Please do not top-post.
That would be parsed by the proposed regex as
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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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