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At least post your attempt in terms of
indexOf and substring indicating the problem you are facing. I don't accept change; I don't deserve to live.
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String.split() really can help you out, I think. If I understand rightly, the thing you're dissatisfied with is that the suggestion strips off the terminating punctuation from the strings. The expression's a bit more involved, but you can do something such as the following:
See the documentation of Pattern to understand how this works. Although the expression's a bit nasty, this really is more succinct than tying yourself in knots with indexOf() and the like.
I leave it as an exercise to the reader to amend the expression to correctly split sentences such as "I asked Dr. Smith to come." :-)
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See the documentation of Pattern to understand how this works. Although the expression's a bit nasty, this really is more succinct than tying yourself in knots with indexOf() and the like.
I leave it as an exercise to the reader to amend the expression to correctly split sentences such as "I asked Dr. Smith to come." :-)
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Thank you for your suggestion. Can you direct to me to a good source where I find out how to use this expression? I'd like to finish this and move on to another project involving a JSlider.
Again, thanks for taking the time!
Again, thanks for taking the time!
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Originally Posted by clueless101 
Thank you for your suggestion. Can you direct to me to a good source where I find out how to use this expression? I'd like to finish this and move on to another project involving a JSlider.
Again, thanks for taking the time!
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutor...sential/regex/
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> String[] sentences = str.split("(?<=[\\.!?]+)(?![\\.!?]+) *");
Like previously mentioned, you don't need to escape regular expression meta characters inside bracketed character classes. Hence
Like previously mentioned, you don't need to escape regular expression meta characters inside bracketed character classes. Hence
[.!?]+ to be used instead of [\\.!?]+ . I don't accept change; I don't deserve to live.
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