Re: Help with Regular Expression

hi ari and barry -- In a message dated 5/15/2009 6:20:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, ari.constan...@gmail.com writes: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Barry Brevik wrote: > > > I am running Active Perl 5.8.8. > > ... > > Difficulty: the fields contain hundreds of words both preceding and

Re: Help with Regular Expression

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Barry Brevik wrote: > I am running Active Perl 5.8.8. > > I am converting a large enterprise database into a new system and have > run across a free-form text field in which users have entered all manner > of garbage. > > One scenario is where two sentences have b

Help with Regular Expression

I am running Active Perl 5.8.8. I am converting a large enterprise database into a new system and have run across a free-form text field in which users have entered all manner of garbage. One scenario is where two sentences have been run together with no ending '.' or space. Here are some examp