End of line period

[George Musick]

How do I add a period "." to the end of each line if there isn't already a ".", "?" or "!" there? To be safe, I think I need to remove trailing spaces first.

Thanks,
George

[Bob Hansen]

Quick and dirty, not pretty at all.....

1. Add a period to the end of every line.
2. Replace ".." with "."
3. Replace "?." with "?"
4. Replace "!." with "!"

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Better solution will be RegEx, should look something like this UNTESTED sample. Should add period if no punctuation, and strip trailing spaces also:

Use this as a test file, insert trailing spaces on two lines as noted.

This line has a period at the end.
This line has NO punctuation
This line has one trailing space
This line has a question mark?
This line has two trailing spaces
This line has an exclamation point!

Search for:^(.*)([^_.?!])(_)*$
Replace with:\1\2.
Note: The _ character is for space character

No access to TestPad right now, so cannot do RegEx tests. The RegEx strings above are best guess, but probably need to be tweaked.

[MudGuard]

Replace

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([^?!.])$

by

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\1.

if empty lines should get a dot as well, use

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(^|[^?!.])$

instead.

if whitespace after ? or ! or . is allowed replace

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([^?!. \t])([ \t]*)$

or

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(^|[^?!. \t])([ \t]*)$

by

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\1.\2

(of course, posix syntax is needed)

[Bob Hansen]

Aaah! I see that MudGuard has also submitted his solutions.

I just came back to put up an updated RegEx, turns out to be very similar to his, but he was quicker.

Search for: ([^.?!])(_)*$
Replace with: \1.
Note: The imbedded _ is for the space character.

Again, this will insert the period if no existing punctuation, and will also remove trailing spaces before inserting a final period. If there are trailing spaces after an existing punctuation mark, then an additional period will result.