Re: split $data, $unquoted

Do you need to consider periods in decimals and abbreviations?

Mr. Smith paid Jr. $7.43 for 0.4 lbs. of coffee.
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You'll find that the period is overused and highly context sensitive. There are even ambiguities that cannot be determined contextually, but need semantic hints (or the original author to clarify).

Perhaps other language designers avoided the period on purpose?

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Re^2: split $data, $unquoted_value; by Ovid (Cardinal) on Sep 14, 2005 at 21:49 UTC
Ah, crud. Yes. I do need to consider decimals (though not abbreviations). `loves("Mr. Poe", perl) :- version(perl, Version), Version >= 5.8.` [download] Cheers, Ovid New address of my CGI Course.	[reply] [d/l]