Name: bb33257 Date: 07/29/97


The following string:

aa.bb.
aa"bb"
aa'bb'

is broken by the word-break iterator (BreakIterator.
getWordInstance()) as follows:

aa.bb
.
aa"bb
"
aa'bb
'

This is probably correct for the apostrophe, but the other two
should probably break as follows:

aa
.
bb
.
aa
"
bb
"
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The following app demonstrates the issue that a period at termination
of scentence is not handled properly. Internal periods are OK. Other
punctuation is OK (for example a '?' at the end).



import java.text.BreakIterator;

class WordBoundary {
       // Creating and using text boundaries

       public static void main(String args[]) {

String stringToExamine =
"Mr. Livingston, I presume.";

// print original text
System.out.println ("ORIGINAL TEXT:");
System.out.println(stringToExamine);
System.out.println("");

            // print text with separators between words
            BreakIterator wordBoundary = BreakIterator.getWordInstance();
            wordBoundary.setText(stringToExamine);
System.out.println ("WITH WORD BOUNDARIES:");
            printWithSeparators(wordBoundary, stringToExamine);
       }
 
       // Print a separator '|' at each boundary

       public static void printWithSeparators(BreakIterator boundary, String source) {
           int start = boundary.first();
           int end = start;
           while (end != BreakIterator.DONE) {
System.out.print(source.substring(start,end));
System.out.print('|');
                 start = end;
end = boundary.next();
           }
System.out.println();
       }
}

gregory.graham@Canada 1997-09-01