From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2006-01-11T20:03:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding a sentence (more than one word & punctuation (, . ;)) in a string?

On Jan 11, 2006, at 8:08, Kev Jackson wrote:

> given this string
>
> "    <td valign=\"top\">message</td>    <td valign=\"top\">the  
> message to echo.</td>    <td valign=\"top\" align=\"center\">Yes,  
> unless data is included in a character section within this  
> element.</td>  </tr>  "
>
> how can I get this result
>
> ["message", "the message to echo.", "Yes, unless data is included  
> in a character section within this element."]

There have been several simple approaches proposed in this thread  
that may work for what you want. Just in case, if you needed  
something more robust you could have a glance at existing Perl  
modules that solve this problem like Lingua::EN::Sentence.

-- fxn