Well ... given all the good comments above, one brute force
ugly way is:
#/usr/bin/perl
$sentence = "Douglas built five Douglas World Cruisers to attempt his
+first flight to Buenos Aires. These were the predecesors of the moder
+n AH-64D and AH-64D Apache.";
# split on spaces and some common punctuations
@words = split( /\s+|[.,\/\\;]/, $sentence );
# roll through the words and grab the cap words
# and their position
$cnt = 0;
foreach( @words ) {
push( @lol, [ $_, $cnt ] ) if /^[A-Z]/;
$cnt++;
}
# print out the first match
$prev = $lol[0]->[1]-1;
print $lol[0]->[0];
shift( @lol );
# roll through the rest. print out a new line
# if it's not the next word by count, space if it is
foreach( @lol ) {
print $prev != $_->[1]-1 ? "\n" : " ";
print $_->[0];
$prev = $_->[1];
}
print "\n";
Like I said ... ugly.
-derby
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