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    Reading the first sentence

    I have a program that reads news from yahoo. what I want to do is just read the first sentence from each paragraph. I dont want to store it in a file but do it at the same time that I read it from the internet. How do I do this? Any help.

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    What is the format of the news how do you read the news from yahoo at the moment.

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    Right now I am using HTML parser to parse the html page and get to the textual content

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    after you have the paragraph parsed from the html, just use the String commands.

    Code:
    String paragraph;
    //parse HTML
    
    String sentence = paragraph.substring(0,paragraph.indexOf("."));

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phaelax
    after you have the paragraph parsed from the html, just use the String commands.

    Code:
    String paragraph;
    //parse HTML
    
    String sentence = paragraph.substring(0,paragraph.indexOf("."));
    What if paragraph is "I walked over to Mr. Smith."? Also, that will leave out the period. substring is inclusive of the first argument, exclusive of the second.

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    I just used BreakIterator class and it works fine giving sentences separately.
    But how can I identify when a new paragraph comes. breakiterator class still has some disadvantage when there is a country name such as U.S. comes in between. it identifies it as a new sentence.

    Any ideas to overcome these problems.

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    Maybe search for a tab that indents a new paragraph? \t

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    Hehe,It's really a hard stuff.We don't know the rule of the news.
    Maybe you can ask the Supportor of the yahoo for a help,I think they should have API for java.


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