Mercurial > octave
changeset 25846:e88d3e648e1c
get_first_help_sentence.m: Use a better regexp for sentence-end detection.
* get_first_help_sentence.m: Change regexp to search for a period, followed by
whitespace, followed by a capital letter or newline.
| author | Rik <rik@octave.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Thu, 30 Aug 2018 11:14:43 -0700 |
| parents | aa4e0ca9873b |
| children | c756e9a1e776 |
| files | scripts/help/get_first_help_sentence.m |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/scripts/help/get_first_help_sentence.m Thu Aug 30 12:23:38 2018 -0400 +++ b/scripts/help/get_first_help_sentence.m Thu Aug 30 11:14:43 2018 -0700 @@ -84,9 +84,9 @@ ## This function extracts the first sentence from a plain text help text function [text, status] = first_sentence_plain_text (help_text, max_len) - ## Extract first line by searching for a period followed by a space class - ## character (to support periods in numbers or words) ... - period_idx = regexp (help_text, '\.\s', "once"); + ## Extract first line by searching for a period followed by whitespace + ## followed by a capital letter (Nearly the same rule as Texinfo). + period_idx = regexp (help_text, '\.\s+(?:[A-Z]|\n)', "once"); ## ... or a double end-of-line (we subtract 1 because we are not interested ## in capturing the first newline). line_end_idx = regexp (help_text, "\n\n", "once") - 1;