search-replace : sentence break

[kenfhill84083]

In the same way you can find paragraph breaks (^p) as part of search-replace, it would be handy if you could find sentence breaks - without having to go thru the process of separately searching for periods, question marks, and exclamation marks - before even having to factor in quotation marks at the end of a sentence.

Among other things, I use Atlantis as a pre-processor for bringing text into Freeplane mindmapping software. In some of my scenarios, it is much easier to work with sentences than paragraphs. It would be even easier if I did not have to manually break apart paragraphs into those sentences.

Thanks.

[kenfhill84083]

bump. any suggestions on this help request?

[admin]

There is no such special character as “sentence break”.

The following wildcard search pattern matches “white space” after a sentence terminated with a period, exclamation mark or question mark, optionally followed by a quote mark:

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[!.^#^w]{2}[.!?]['"]{0,}|^w|^U

Just copy/paste the above search pattern in the “Find what” box:

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