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Subject: Re: remove question marks and exclamation points
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 13:39:45 -0500
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On 1/24/2015 12:21 PM, elodie.gillain@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I wrote code to remove question marks and exclamation points from some text. However, one can find those in my output file. Interesting enough, the periods (full stops) were removed. Can anybody help me figure this out?
> [... code snipped; see up-thread ...]

     Consider what your code does with an input line like

	"What?" she exclaimed. "It wasn't his to begin with!"

You'll get the "word" sequence

	"What?"
	she
	exclaimed.
	"It
	wasn't
	his
	to
	begin
	with!"

... from which you'll obtain

	What?
	she
	exclaimed
	It
	wasn't
	his
	to
	begin
	with!

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