I'm trying to use this regular expression to delete particular strings from a file before tokenising it.
I want to delete all strings that have a full stop (period) when it is not at the beginning or end of a word, and also when it is not followed by a closing bracket. I want to delete file names (eg. fileX.doc), and websites (when www/http not given) but not file extensions (eg. this is in .jpg format). I also don't want to delete the last word of each sentence just because it precedes a fullstop, or if there's a fullstop followed by a closing bracket.
fullstopRe = re.compile (r'\S+\.[^)}]]+')
I've also tried fullstopRe = re.compile (r'\S+[.][^)}]]+')
I understand this to represent - any character one or more times, a full stop (I'm using the backslash, or putting it in a character class to make it literal), then any character but not any kind of closing bracket, one or more times.
If I forget about the bracket exceptions, the following works: fullstopRe = re.compile (r'\S+[.]\S+')
But the scripts above are not deleting eg. bbc.co.uk
Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks Debbie
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