[Tutor] about regular expression

alan.gauld@bt.com alan.gauld@bt.com
Wed Mar 26 13:10:03 2003


> In standard well-formed English, a full stop period is 
> usually followed by two spaces, whereas abbreviations 
> are only followed by one.  

Unfortunately that rule of usage is no deprecated.
Modern practice is to use single spacing for both.


> Perhaps this will serve for the purpose for the regex.

In practice it was only observed by touch typists and 
publishers anyway so probably wouldn't make a lot of difference.

I think its too much to ask of a regex...

Alan G