Punctuation's are the marks, such as full stop, comma, and brackets, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.
Questions tagged [punctuation]
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What punctuation characters are necessary for a city field?
I'm considering a regex to restrict punctuation in city names (worldwide). What would be a fairly inclusive whitelist of these?
I'm thinking:
(space)
. period
- hyphen
' apostrophe
Also thinking maybe comma or slash but I don't have any examples.…
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Regex for matching duplicate consecutive punctuation characters with the exception of 3 periods
I have regex
(\p{P})\1
which successfully matches duplicate consecutive punctuation characters like
;;
,,
\\
, but i need to exclude 3 period (ellipsis) punctuation.
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Artūras
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VB.NET Brackets () {} [] <>
Can someone please fill in the blanks for me, including a brief description of use and perhaps a code snippet? I'm well aware of the top two in particular, but a little hazy on the last one especially:
() - Used for calling a function, object…
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runOnUiThread(new Runnable() { punctuation (token) issue
Somehow it doesn't work, according to me it should be this:
public void Splash(){
Timer timer= new Timer();
timer.schedule(new TimerTask(){
MexGame.this.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
public void run(){
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How to preserve punctuation marks in Scikit-Learn text CountVectorizer or TfidfVectorizer?
Is there any way for me to preserve punctuation marks of !, ?, " and ' from my text documents using text CountVectorizer or TfidfVectorizer parameters in scikit-learn?
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clean line of punctuation and split into words python
learning python currently and having a bit of a problem. I'm trying to take a line from another subprogram and convert it into separate words that have been stripped of their punctuation besides a few. the output of this program is supposed to be…
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Why are leading-hyphen options permitted on `use` lines without fat comma and with strict?
Why is the following use line legal Perl syntax? (Adapted from the POD for parent; tested on Perl 5.26.2 x64 on Cygwin.)
package MyHash;
use strict;
use Tie::Hash;
use parent -norequire, "Tie::StdHash";
# ^^^^^^^^^^ A bareword with nothing…
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Pyspark how to remove punctuation marks and make lowercase letters in Rdd?
I would like to remove punctuation mark and make the lowercase letters in RDD?
Below is my data set
l=sc.parallelize(["How are you","Hello\ then% you"\
,"I think he's fine+ COMING"])
I tried below function but I got an error…
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Matching last and first bracket in gsub/r and leaving the remaining content intact
I'm working with a character vector of the following format:
[-0.2122,-0.1213)
[-0.2750,-0.2122)
[-0.1213,-0.0222)
[-0.1213,-0.0222)
I would like to remove [ and ) so I can get the desired result…
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Solr: strip punctuation before index
I am having a problem with striping punctuation from the solr index
When the punctuation sign follow right after a word then this word is not indexed properly.
For example: if we index "hello, John", the asset won't be found by keyword "hello" while…
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tm custom removePunctuation except hashtag
I have a Corpus of tweets from twitter. I clean this corpus (removeWords, tolower, delete URls) and finally also want to remove punctuation.
Here is my code:
tweetCorpus <- tm_map(tweetCorpus, removePunctuation, preserve_intra_word_dashes =…
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Scala mkString except the last one
I would like to do the following in scala:
val l = List("An apple", "a pear", "a grapefruit", "some bread")
... some one-line simple function ...
"An apple, a pear, a grapefruit and some bread"
What would be the shortest way to write it that…
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Javascript regex validate password string (escaping punctuations)
I am trying to validate a password string with javascript and need some help with a regex. I have tried some tutorials, but I think I have some problems understanding how to escape quantifiers and/or metacharacters.
I want to make sure that the…
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Is there a search engine that searches for the exact words you enter, exactly how you entered them?
Is there a search engine that has some of the following features?
Case sensitive: "LaTeX" != "latex"
Doesn't mess with punctuation in a quoted phrase: "Yes!!!" != "Yes?"
Doesn't search for words that have the same stem: "fracture" != "fractured"
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How to remove punctuation excluding negations?
Let's assume I have the following sentence:
s = c("I don't want to remove punctuation for negations. Instead, I want to remove only general punctuation. For example, keep I wouldn't like it but remove Inter's fan or Man city's fan.")
I would like…
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