Re: GetWords

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2004


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 60182
interpreted = N
texte = On 11/24/04 1:45 PM, "Joe D'Andrea" wrote: > At 1:34 PM -0600 11/24/04, Clint Davis wrote: >> I need to extract the first sentence out of a block of text. The sentence >> will end with a period, exclamation point, or question mark followed by a >> space. May be a job for [grep]. Any ideas? > > > [listwords] when use with "delimiters" can redefine the meaning of what a word > is. > > > [listwords words=[your words go here]&delimiters=.!?] > [showif [index]=1] > The first sentence is: [word] > [/showif] > [/listwords] This also won't work if my sentence contains a period in the middle. Example: Do you have 2.2 children? ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: GetWords ( devaulw@onebox.com 2004)
  2. Re: GetWords ( Joe D'Andrea 2004)
  3. Re: GetWords ( Clint Davis 2004)
  4. Re: GetWords ( Joe D'Andrea 2004)
  5. Re: GetWords ( "WebDna @ Inkblot Media" 2004)
  6. Re: GetWords ( Clint Davis 2004)
  7. Re: GetWords ( Clint Davis 2004)
  8. Re: GetWords ( Joe D'Andrea 2004)
  9. GetWords ( Clint Davis 2004)
On 11/24/04 1:45 PM, "Joe D'Andrea" wrote: > At 1:34 PM -0600 11/24/04, Clint Davis wrote: >> I need to extract the first sentence out of a block of text. The sentence >> will end with a period, exclamation point, or question mark followed by a >> space. May be a job for [grep]. Any ideas? > > > [listwords] when use with "delimiters" can redefine the meaning of what a word > is. > > > [listwords words=[your words go here]&delimiters=.!?] > [showif [index]=1] > The first sentence is: [word] > [/showif] > [/listwords] This also won't work if my sentence contains a period in the middle. Example: Do you have 2.2 children? ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Clint Davis

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