In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Salerno wrote:
> I have a large list of publication citations that are numbered. The
> numbers are simply typed in with the rest of the text. What I want to do
> is remove the numbers and then put bullets instead. Now, this alone
> would be easy enough, with a little Python and a little work by hand,
> but the real issue is that because of the way these citations were
> typed, there are often line breaks at the end of each line -- in other
> words, the person didn't just let the line flow to the next line, they
> manually pressed Enter. So inserting bullets at this point would put a
> bullet at each line break.
>
> So I need to remove the line breaks too, but of course not *all* of them
> because each reference still needs a line break between it. So I'm
> hoping I could get an idea or two for approaching this. I figure regular
> expressions will be needed, and maybe it would be good to remove the
> line breaks first and *not* remove a line break that comes before the
> numbers (because that would be the proper place for one), and then
> finally remove the numbers.
I think I have vague idea how the input looks like, but it would be
helpful if you show some example input and wanted output.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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