Re: Tricky little string parsing challenge

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Steve Litt once stated:
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:07:19 +0000
> Geoff Smith <spammealot1@live.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Of course I had forgotten about not splitting on decimal points in
> > numbers.  How can I adapt this to ignore the full stop character if
> > surrounded by numbers?
> > 
> > Thanks for any solutions.
> 
> The problem is in the specification. It's not easy to describe what's a
> sentence ender and what's a decimal point. I'd split on a dot followed
> immediately by whitespace: Space, Tab, Newline or Formfeed.

  Mr. Litt would break on a dot followed by whitespace. Mr. Conner would
disagree, as he thinks e. e. cummings would also disagree.  What constitutes
a sentence?  Is this a sentence?

  -spc (He who took the No. 9 train.)