[Tutor] about regular expression

[Alan Trautman]

Hate to argue but if you are parsing MLA formatted documents there is to be
only one space after all periods. Is there a formal style guide for the text
you are accepting? The Sean's idea would work well. I also matters which
generation of style guide is used. MLA used 2 spaces after sentences until
1998. I think the APA (journalism) may use one space too.

Of course people following those standards who are not in formal
academic/professional life are rare as unicorns as well.

Hate to make it harder but English is hard. Maybe non-capitalized word
followed by a period then by spaces(s) and then a capitol letter? I'm sure I
might be missing something (You would need a way to catch questions such as
"What time is lunch" said Mary?) but maybe it will find more word for you.

HTH,

Alan


-----Original Message-----
From: Steegness [mailto:steegness@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 8:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [Tutor] about regular expression


In standard well-formed English, a full stop period is usually followed by
two spaces, whereas abbreviations are only followed by one.  Perhaps this
will serve for the purpose for the regex.

Sean


> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 03:07:06 -0800 (PST)
> From: Abdirizak abdi <a_abdi406@yahoo.com>
> To: tutor@python.org
> Subject: [Tutor] about  regular expression
>
> Hi everyone
>
> Can any one suggest a regular _expression that can distinguish between two
fullstop(e.g : he got married last weeek.)  and abbreviated word (e.g Al.
Brown), I have tried  some but  I couldn't get them right. please give an
example each of these two.
>
> thanks in advance

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