Shell Programming and Scripting

Sorry my net was down and could not ack ur answer.
Many thanks for the script. The only hassle is that it needs to be a regex since I need to process data on the fly dynamically and not off-line using SED.
Any suggestions?
I did tweak your regex to suit my needs but drew a blank.

Hi,

a regex will match something, then what ?
If don't understand what do you mean by a regex to process on the fly dynamically. .

Can you give me an exemple please ?

The goal even if it's "dynamic on the fly" is to replace the right full-stop by full-stop <new-line>

I don't get it how can you do that only with a regex ? are you using perl ?

perl :

Code:

perl -pe 's/\. ([A-Z])/.\n$1/g'

Code:

$ perl -pe 's/\. ([A-Z])/.\n$1/g' input-file
The temperature was 32.8 degrees Celsius.
His B.Sc. degree was deemed insufficient.
He owed the bank USD 4000.50 which he had not paid back.
On 27.07.2004 a major earthquake occurred.
It was 17.05 by the clock.

Hi,
Many thanks for the regex. I will try it out and get back to you. By "on the fly", I meant that the regex is inserted within a java string which in turn interrogates a web-site and returns full sentences for searching and indexing.
This is why a Perl script would not help, since it would mean calling the script. I will try and see if the script can be called from Java, but the open source software we are using demands a regex and hence the request.
Many thanks