From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "split-sentences"? Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 10:35:51 +0100 Message-ID: <87a6t09ers.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87zh109r2d.fsf@zoho.eu> <87v9bo9myu.fsf@zoho.eu> <20210123084136.GA2306@tuxteam.de> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20516"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:jZ9t47wNal+ef96UisUerf/g7GY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 23 10:40:53 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l3FPY-0005E4-RF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2021 10:40:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48288 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l3FPX-00042s-T7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2021 04:40:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41592) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l3FOq-00042k-5M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2021 04:40:08 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:45924) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l3FOm-0008QX-At for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2021 04:40:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l3FOj-0004Ti-VB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2021 10:40:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:127326 Archived-At: 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... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal