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Old 03-09-2011, 07:53 AM   #1
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Regex question and maybe some help

I have built a regex to find paragraphs not ended by a normal terminal (eg. . ! etc) which may be a broken paragraph.

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[^".;!:']</p>
Being the regex guru - - that I am, there is a problem. The regex works fine except it does not ignore (").

It allows me to look at each find and determine if it is truly a broken paragraph.

How do I get this thing to ignore the (")?
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Old 03-09-2011, 09:37 AM   #2
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Depending on the regexp dialect, this might work:

Code:
[^.:!?"']["')]?</p>
(assuming you meant ? instead of ; and you allow closing parenthesis as a paragraph end). The ? outside the brackets matches zero or one occurrence of the previous expression.

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Could the problem be that you need to specify both straight quotes and curly ending quotes? If so you'd need to copy and paste the required type of quote into the expression.
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Could the problem be that you need to specify both straight quotes and curly ending quotes? If so you'd need to copy and paste the required type of quote into the expression.
i got everything working fine, thank you.
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every approach has exceptions. my normal fix fails on things like
T.V.
show

or
L.A. district

where the full stop is not actually a sentence end, but has been followed by a line feed.

to be thorough takes 2 passes. 1 to check for sentence ends , then another to check for paras which begin with lower case letter.
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@cybmole, that still wouldn't get them all.

What about when it's something like Mr.
Smith, that wouldn't get caught.
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@cybmole, that still wouldn't get them all.

What about when it's something like Mr.
Smith, that wouldn't get caught.
thats a tricky one, but I've not actually encountered it in a badly formatted book, YET!

what I do nowadays, because these things irritate me, is keep a pad n pencil handy when I'm reading a poor quality book on Kindle, & make a note of any formats or typos that I want to go back & fix, later. then I use sigil to find n fix in epub, then reconvert to mobi.

the T.V. and L.A. examples were real cases.
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thats a tricky one, but I've not actually encountered it in a badly formatted book, YET!
I have

Whatever you do, only a careful (proof)reading (or several) of the book will catch some of them.

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what I do nowadays, because these things irritate me, is keep a pad n pencil handy when I'm reading a poor quality book on Kindle, & make a note of any formats or typos that I want to go back & fix, later. then I use sigil to find n fix in epub, then reconvert to mobi.
Exactly what I do, except that I edit the ePUB by hand and don't convert to mobi.
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This is why I like to do most of my reformatting in Word where a VBA macro takes care of all these possibilities. It lets me string together a series of Find-Replace operations and set Styles. In the case of 'Mr.', yes, I've had that occur so added a Find-Replace to correct it:
With Selection.Find
.Text = "Mr.^p"
.Replacement.Text = "Mr."
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Yes but then there's lots of possibilities

Mr. Mrs. Dr. Prof. Ms. Miss. Messrs. ..... and probably lots more

There's also other names, with initials, P.
Smith wouldn't get found either.
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