#! perl -slw use strict; ( my $data = do{ local $/; } )=~ s[\n\+][]g; print "'$1'" while $data =~ m[ ( .+? ## Capture everything (minimally) (?: [.!?] \s+ ## A terminator followed by whitespace | [a-z] ## or a lowercase letter ) ) (?= [A-Z] | \z ) ## followed by a an uppercase letter or EOS ]xg; __DATA__ The Tell-Tale HeartEdgar Allen PoeTRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I + had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened + my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing + acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things i +n hell. How then am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I ca +n tell you the whole story. #### c:\test>junk5 'The Tell-Tale Heart' 'Edgar Allen Poe' 'TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad? ' 'The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. ' 'Above all was the sense of hearing acute. ' 'I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. ' 'I heard many things in hell. ' 'How then am I mad? ' 'Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story. '