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How to match exclamation marks?
  
 
Posted: Oct 14, 2015

Bear with me if this is too basic. But in case I need to match exclamation marks like in “Great! I like it.”, the canonical form in the :testpattern screen shot attached says no match. Where did I do wrong?

Thanks.

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Posted: Oct 15, 2015
   [ # 1 ]

Actually, it’s a CS bug.  It is SUPPOSED to be the case that ! would terminate a sentence, just like .  . But it wasn’t marked internally properly.  What you should be seeing is two sentences. The first is:
Great
The second is:
I like it

In both cases, the terminal punctuation is swallowed into the tokenflags, and then you could match the exclamation by
u: (great \!) 
where the location of \! doesnt matter, because its actually a flag, not a positional token.  Next CS this weekend will fix this.

Now there remains an issue if you set tokencontrol to prevent ! being a terminator. Then you have no way to match it. I will figure that out too.
 

 
Posted: Oct 18, 2015
   [ # 2 ]

Fixed in now released 5.72b
 

 
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