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Jamin2112
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I can't think of an elegant way to do it, and yet I need to, somehow.
If you have a period followed by a space, then you know you're at the end of a sentence. Same with a period followed by a quotation marks (in the American way of writing. In the British way, they keep the quotation marks inside the periods). But wait ... I just realized something else. If you have a name like E.B. White, that'll get cut off. D'oh! It gets more complicated when someone encloses multiple consecutive sentences in parentheses.
Is this futile? I might have to go about my plagiarism detection program by another means. Looking for highly correlative sentences between texts cannot possibly work unless there's a good way of finding sentences.
If you have a period followed by a space, then you know you're at the end of a sentence. Same with a period followed by a quotation marks (in the American way of writing. In the British way, they keep the quotation marks inside the periods). But wait ... I just realized something else. If you have a name like E.B. White, that'll get cut off. D'oh! It gets more complicated when someone encloses multiple consecutive sentences in parentheses.
Is this futile? I might have to go about my plagiarism detection program by another means. Looking for highly correlative sentences between texts cannot possibly work unless there's a good way of finding sentences.