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? >> > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
