More general would be to use the regular expression that Emacs uses for end of sentence:

[.?!][]\"')]*($| $|\t| )[ \t\n]*

and use this instead of the \. in Alan's suggestion.

-Martin

Alan Churchill wrote: > Arjen, > > I would use regular expressions here. > > Split the text using the following regex: > > (?<=[a-z])\. > > That should give you what you need. > > Alan > > Alan Churchill > Savian "Bridging SAS and Microsoft Technologies" > www.savian.net > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Arjen > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 9:04 AM > To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: detect dots as end of sentence > > Hi SAS-L, > > Please look at the tested code below. I am trying to split sentences in > character strings by detecting the dot (.) at the end of a sentence. I > encounter difficulties because there are numbers with dots in them. I > figure two solutions: > (i) Replace all numbers with numbers written down European-style: 4,31 > g 12,5 years - I have no clue > (ii) Split sentences by searching for a dot and a space (. ); I tried > to include a space in the code, but then I get a dataset with all > separate words sorted out, which is not what I need. > > Any suggestions? Thanks. > > Arjen > > data SOURCE; > x = "Daily intake of less than 4.31 g in people younger than 12.5 did > not cause any harmful effects. I would highly recommend this drug." > ; > run; > > data SOURCE; set SOURCE; id+1; run; > > data need (drop = i); > length y $5000; > set source; > do i = 1 to 100 while(scan(x,i,".") ne ""); > y = scan(x,i,".")||'.'; > output; > end; > run;