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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with awk regular expression for RS record separator Post 303001605 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 8th of August 2017 02:27:45 AM

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It's not just Mr.. It's also Mrs., Ms., Dr., Sr., Jr., and hundreds of other abbreviations. And these abbreviations don't always appear at the start of a sentence. (Or maybe you thought that the caret in (^Mr. | [?!]) means "not". It doesn't; it anchors that part of the ERE to the start of a string. And the <space> before the bracket expression is a literal <space> that must be matched exactly (and that <space> would never appear before a sentence terminating character in English text).

If your sentences all end at the end of a line, anchoring (i.e. [.!?]$ as I suggested in post #6 in this thread) should work for you. If you have multiple sentences that take multiple lines or multiple sentences on a line AND sentences that do not end at the end of a line have a sentence terminating character immediately followed by two <space> characters, then the RS value I suggested i post #6 (i.e.

Code:

RS="[.?!](  |$)"

with exactly two spaces before the vertical bar in that ERE) should give you records that are sentences (without the character that terminates the sentence).

But if you have abbreviations followed by a single space and sentence terminating characters followed by a single space (not a double space) and not appearing at the end of a line, you are going to find it very difficult to guess which periods terminate abbreviations and which periods terminate sentences. (Note that it is also possible for an abbrevition to appear at the end of a sentence.

And, semicolons and colons do not end English sentences. I don't understand why you're including them in your EREs.

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