Please remove my email address from your list, thanks Tom
On 10/14/05, Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Dave Adams wrote: > > > How paragraphs are delimited is actually my question. In otherwords, > > when perl reads in my string, can it identify where the paragraphs > > breaks are? > > > > In my example, $text was created in wordpad where 'This is the FIRST > > paragraph' and 'This is the SECOND paragraph' are seperated by a > > paragraph break. > > > > My desired output is: This is the FIRST paragraph^PThis is the SECOND > > paragraph > > > > Thank you for your interest and your efforts to help me out. Very > > much appreciated. > > What's a paragraph break? > > I'm familiar with newlines or line breaks (\n), and I'm familiar with > carriage returns (\r), but I'm not aware of an ASCII paragraph break. > > I *have* seen -- and in fact am using to type this very message -- a > convention where two or more newlines delineate paragraph boundaries. > If that fits what you're working on, then you could maybe match > > /\n\s*\n/ > > or something like that, matching a new line, zero or more spaces (I > assume they wouldn't matter), then another newline. > > > If you want to extend that to the case of the two "or more" newlines, as > here, then you need to extend the regex. This might work: > > /\n\s*\n+/ > > But that doesn't properly check for spaces after the first newline. If > that matters, you'll have to tweak it a bit further. > > Make sense? > > > -- > Chris Devers > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > -- Thomas J. Hughes, DoD (CIV) Information Computer Telecommunciations Specialist Level - 6 Naval Surface Warfare Center Joint Interoperability Test Center (JITC) COMM: (301) 274-0160 CELL: (240) 210-0277 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
