Hello Monks-

I have a file that is just a huge block of text. I have found the documentation on Text::Autoformat and read up on using it. What I would like to do is just slice out individual sentences and then feed them individually to Text::Autoformat.. To do this I am looking for someway to split the text at every '.' '?' or '!'. In addition there are a few places in the text where the punctuation is missing, and so the only indication of a new sentence is that a lowercase letter is followed by a capital letter. (For example it looks likeThis.)

I am not a regular Perl user, but I think a regex including ‘/.?!/’ might be of some use. On the other hand, the small letter capital letter split has me totally flummoxed.

Here is an example of what I am looking for: 

__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 d
+isease 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? He
+arken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whol
+e story.
__END__

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I would like to split it into something that looks like this: 

__DATA__
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.
__END__

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My thanks to anyone who can suggest a way to go forward with this.

-UH

In reply to Using punctuation to split a text by UrbanHick

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