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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.

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Regex of getting rid of punctuations before and after a string

Is there a way I can get rid of notations at the front and the end of a string? For example, "hello," -> "hello" "hello;" -> "hello" In other words, remove all punctuation after, before, or within a word, except single quotes and single dashes if…
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custom php function in mysql query

my query below working query $sorgum = "SELECT kolon_etiketler, kolon_yazar, kolon_baslik, kolon_resim_baslik, kolon_resim_url, kolon_yazi, kolon_ytarihi FROM tb_yazilar WHERE kolon_statu = 'onay' AND kolon_yazar…
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I cannot locate my spelling/punctuation errors. My code runs fine, yet there is something wrong

I wrote out a program in Java that allows the user to name certain sports based on the number of players and vice versa using a scanner. I ran it with almost every combination I could think of, and it works fine. After submitting as a class project…
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punctuation expected errors-c#

I am new to c#.I trıed to write basic average calculator.I get 60 error most of them ) expected ; expected I checked but i think everythıng s correct.Can it be problem about that I use visual studio 2010? using System; using…
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Python Regex punctuation recognition

I am stumped by this one. I am just learning regular expressions and cannot figure out why this will not return punctuation marks. here is a piece of the text file the regex is…
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Spacing and pattern replacement

It is two part question: Part 1 To remove multiple white spaces, paragraph breaks to just one. current code: import re # Read inputfile with open('input.txt', 'r') as file : inputfile = file.read() # Replace extras spaces with single…
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Is there a better way to count punctuation in a sentence?

I want to count 'end sentences' e.g. full stops, exclamation marks, and question marks. I have written a little loop to do this, but I was wondering if there is a better way. Not allowed to use built-in functions. for line in textContent: …
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Given an Array of strings how do I Remove Duplicates?

I would like to know how to remove duplicate strings from a container, but ignore word differences from trailing punctuation. For example given these strings: Why do do we we here here? I would like to get this output: Why do we here?
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Get date and time of device without any punctuation marks

I want to get the current time and date of the device on my android app, but without any punctuation marks. I mean like: 05112016 and 1946 How can I do that on my android app? EDIT 1#: The question isn't a duplicate, since the answer in the…
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Regex to remove punctuation where it isn't part of the word/value so leave %, £, ', but remove , ([ *

I've read the wiki and the other suggested material, but I can't get my head around creating this Regex. To detail it, it is required as I need to split a sentence into words, and only the word/values so I can compare each word to others in other…
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Split by Regex pattern containing zero or even number of punctuation characters java

In java,I need to split a sentence by '(single quote) and sentence contains punctuation characters like ?,^ or ! The sentence gets splitted only If the sentence contains zero or even of punctuation characters,otherwise it will not split, Note: I…
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Why doesn't this work in JavaScript: line === '}'

I'm sure this is a very basic question, but I've look quite a bit for the answer and I can't find it. All I want to do is to see if an element in an array matches } (i.e., a right brace). But this doesn't work: line === '}'. I can use…
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Removing Punctuation from a String

How do I remove punctuation from a string in python? I followed the approach that someone posted on Stackoverflow, but it is not working. punctuation = ['(', ')', '?', ':', ':', ',', '.', '!', '/', '"', "'"] str = input("Hi, my name is Yael…
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How do I use the Re Module with python to extract all punctuation tokens?

I want to extract all punctuation tokens from a text with the re module. How can I do this?
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Is there a way to remove punctuation at the start and end of each word in string but not the middle? Python

write a function beautify_sentence(sentence, punctuation) which returns a new sentence (type string) that removes all the specified punctuations from words (words are separated by a white space). For example, sentence "?hello !mango! and, ban,ana…
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