Yes, Perl is installed on OS X and you can extend its functionality with modules like the one I mentioned. But you do have to write code to create a BBEdit Text Filter (although not much more than what the module's example shows). You can find the Apple Text Filter option under the Text menu item in BBEdit and you can even edit those examples. But I understand that's a big leap to make.
On Monday, December 31, 2018 at 12:03:15 PM UTC-8, Dj wrote: > > 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.
