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From: us on 10 Aug 2010 20:42
Walter Roberson <roberson(a)hushmail.com> wrote in message <i3slmr$ef6$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>...
> syam kumar medandrao wrote:
>
> > Can u please explain how to use regexp to divide a text into words..i
> > tried textscan also but that is alright,
>
> It depends upon what you mean by "words" in this context. For example do you
> need to separate out punctuation marks that might be immediately beside a
> word, or do you need to keep them? If you need to separate them out, then what
> about the cases where the marks are _part_ of the word, such as "etc." or
> "seas'" or "o'clock" ? What about the syntactical blunder in the Chicago
> Manual of Style where you cannot determine with certainty whether a period
> before a closing quote mark indicates an abbreviation or the ending of the
> quoted sentence because CMS requires that both be rendered the same way?

well... that's why i asked for an example, which the OP hasn't provided yet...
else: all second guessing and a waste of time...

us
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