From: moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "split-sentences"?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 10:35:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6t09ers.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20210123084136.GA2306@tuxteam.de
tomas wrote:
> Not exactly your result, but this comes close:
>
> (split-string "'This sentence is spoken by Mr. W. E.
> B Dubois, Esq.!' played through amazon.com alexa
> speakers?" "[[:punct:]][[:space:]]*")
>
> =>
>
> (""
> "This sentence is spoken by Mr"
> "W"
> "E"
> "B Dubois"
> "Esq"
> ""
> ""
> "played through amazon"
> "com alexa speakers"
> "")
>
> You can adjust the results by tweaking the regexp (try word
> boundaries like '\<' and '\>'
*scratches my head*
> if you want to keep punctuation) or the other split-string's
> optional params (e.g. drop the empty matches, etc.).
Well, that's a start, for sure. Thanks :)
Silly me, I already used `split-string' 10 times...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-23 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-23 5:10 "split-sentences"? moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-23 6:38 ` "split-sentences"? moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-23 8:41 ` "split-sentences"? tomas
2021-01-23 9:07 ` "split-sentences"? Tomas Hlavaty
2021-01-23 9:32 ` "split-sentences"? moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-01-23 9:48 ` "split-sentences"? Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-24 0:39 ` "split-sentences"? Tomas Hlavaty
2021-01-23 9:35 ` moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-01-23 13:10 ` "split-sentences"? tomas
2021-01-23 17:46 ` "split-sentences"? Eric Abrahamsen
2021-01-23 20:56 ` "split-sentences"? tomas
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