Mike, that makes a lot more sense now. I looked at page for the Module and 
it seems it's run from terminal and OSX has perl pre-installed? Or is it a 
"module" than can be run somehow from within BBedit? Thanks for the 
patience, I'm not really a programmer, just want to look at questions posed 
from my journal entries over time.  

On Monday, December 31, 2018 at 6:46:24 AM UTC-8, Mike Pasini wrote:
>
> Dj, Process Lines processes *lines* not sentences. So any paragraph that 
> has a sentence with a question mark in it would match searches for strings 
> with question marks.
>
> Identifying a sentence is not a simple task. But there's a Perl module 
> <https://metacpan.org/pod/Lingua::EN::Sentence> to help with that. Using 
> that in a Text Filter would be my approach.
>
> On Saturday, December 29, 2018 at 1:54:37 PM UTC-8, Dj wrote:
>>
>>  Hello,  I'm trying to extract every sentence that ends with a question 
>> from some text files. I'm using the old text wrangler -> process lines ->  
>> copy to new document, but I'm still getting a lot of sentences that don't 
>> end in question marks in that new text.
>>
>> I've come up with these two expressions, 
>>
>>    (?:^|\.|\!|\?) ?\K.+?\?
>>
>> Then the next I tried:     [^.!?]+\?
>>
>> Can someone see how these can be improved on?  
>>
>

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