in reply to Using punctuation to split a text

This is as close to your desired output as I can achieve.

#! perl -slw use strict; ( my $data = do{ local $/; <DATA> } )=~ s[\n\+][]g; print "'$1'" while $data =~ m[ ( .+? ## Capture everything (minimally) (?: [.!?] \s+ ## A terminator followed by whitespac +e | [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 o +f hearing + acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard ma +ny things i +n hell. How then am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily, how ca +lmly, 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 w +hy 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 wh +ole story. '

Which doesn't quite match, but then I do not see how (or more importantly why?) you differenciate between splitting after the question mark here I am mad? The disease but decide not to here How then am I mad? Hearken!?


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Re^2: Using punctuation to split a text
by UrbanHick (Sexton) on Nov 04, 2006 at 10:00 UTC

    Thank you very much for your response.

    The explainations are very much appreciated. The resulting output is perfectably useable for my purposes.

    cheers!

    -UH