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Luke Muehlhauser
I read and tried everything suggested and linked-to by the ever-gravious
Graham Mayor and Greg Maxey. At the bottom of the document I have included
a larger excerpt from the full document.
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'sections' concern multiple years). Sorry I did not include a more
representative excerpt of the full document earlier.
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The problem here is that because every movie title is 'closed' with a
semicolon, but not always 'opened,' it jumps across lines to grab:
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<b>Meh: </b>Boxing Cats, The (1894)
when it should only grab:
Boxing Cats, The (1984);
Naturally, I have no problem running multiple find and replace actions
through the document to work on this, so more specific is better than more
general.
Is there a way to designate line breaks in find and replace to avoid some
of the problems with the above examples?
Or, because every movie title is closed with a semicolon, but not every
movie title is immediately preceded by a semicolon, perhaps it would be
better to try to find movie titles by looking for a closing semicolon and
an opening (; OR >)?
Perhaps seperate routines could be written to first fix the ones that fall
between two semicolons (but not across line breaks), then those between a >
and a semicolon?
Thank you, Greg Mayor, for the link to the article on your site. I'm still
churning it through my mind, trying to get it right.
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Rankings and recommendations consider only the merits of the film, not
historical importance, rarely technical innovation, and are much more based
on 'best films in my opinion' than 'films I most enjoyed watching.' Movies
in 'Also Recommended,' 'Meh,' and 'Garbage' are in no particular order. It
may be useful to <a
href="http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.12794/b_show_new.1">highlight
recent changes</a>.
<br>
<h2>1890-1909 (all shorts)</h2>
<i>55 films seen: 0 feature-length, 55 short</i><ol>
<li>Great Train Robbery, The (1903)
<li>Trip to the Moon, A (1902)
<li>Impossible Voyage, The (1904)
<li>Policemen's Little Run, The (1906)
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)</ol>
<b>Also Recommended: </b>Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1894); Snowball Fight
(1896); Sprinkler Sprinkled, The (1896); Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
(1906);
<b>Meh: </b>Boxing Cats, The (1894); Leonard-Cushing Fight (1894); Edison
Kinetoscopic Record Of A Sneeze (1894); Sioux Ghost Dance (1894); Annabelle
Butterfly Dance (1894); Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) (1894); Exiting the
Factory; Baby's Dinner (1895); Lion, London Zoological Gardens (1895);
Transformation By Hats (1895); Demolition of a Wall (1896); Poultry-Yard
(1896); Cock Fight (1896); Kiss, The (1896); Babies Quarrel (1896);
Promenade of Ostriches, Paris Botanical Gardens (1896); Card Party (1897);
Sky Scrapers of New York City from North River (1903); Trapeze Disrobing
Act (1901); Cook in Trouble, The (1904); Tchin-Tao: The Chinese Conjurer
(1904); Wonderful Living Fan, The (1904); Black Imp, The (1905); Hilarious
Posters, The (1905); Living Playing Cards, The (1905); San Francisco:
Aftermath of Earthquake (1906); Eclipse, The (1907); Troubles of a
Grasswidower (1908); Moscow Clad in Snow (1908); Dog and His Various
Merits, The (1908); Nero (1909);
<b>Garbage: </b>Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896); Carmaux: Drawing
Out the Coke (1896); Feeding the Doves (1896); Sandow (1896); New York,
Broadway at Union Score (1896); Dragoons Crossing the Saone (1896);
President McKinley at Home (1897); Seminary Girls (1897); Pack Train at
Chilkoot Pass (1898); Untamable Whiskers, The (1904); Enchanted Sedan
Chair, The (1905); Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog, The (1905); Scheming
Gambler's Paradise, The (1905); Mysterious Retort, The (1906); Good Glue
Sticks (1907); Long Distance Wireless Photography (1908);
<h2>1910-1919</h2>
<i>20 films seen: 4 feature-length, 16 short</i><ol>
<li>Birth of a Nation, The (1915)
<li>Broken Blossoms (1919)
<li>Immigrant, The (1917) [short]
<li>Easy Street (1917) [short]
<li>Rink, The (1916) [short]
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)</ol>
<b>Also Recommended: </b>Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y.
Herald and His Moving Comics (1911) [short]; Cameraman's Revenge, The
(1912) [short]; Pool Sharks (1915) [short]; Tramp, The (1915) [short];
Champion, The (1915) [short]; Ask Father (1919) [short];
<b>Meh: </b>Last Days of Pompeii, The (1913); Intolerance (1916); For His
Son (1912) [short]; Aeroplane Flight and Wreck (Piloted by M. Cody) (1910)
[short]; Girl and Her Trust, The (1912) [short]; Bangville Police (1913)
[short]; By the Sea (1915) [short]; Butcher Boy, The (1917) [short];
Adventurer, The (1917) [short];
<b>Garbage: </b>
<h2>2002</h2>
<i>83 films seen: 77 feature-length, 6 short</i><ol>
<li>Adaptation
<li>Frailty
<li>Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The
<li>About a Boy
<li>Insomnia
<li>Panic Room
<li>Bowling for Columbine
<li>Gangs of New York
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)</ol>
<b>Also Recommended: </b>About Schmidt; Bend It Like Beckham; Bourne
Identity, The; Catch Me If You Can; Changing Lanes; Confessions of a
Dangerous Mind; Dogtown and Z-Boys; Equilibrium; Igby Goes Down; One Hour
Photo; Irreversible; Lost In La Mancha; Minority Report; Pianist, The;
Punch-Drunk Love; Ring, The; Road to Perdition; Secretary; Signs; Spirited
Away; Talk to Her; Transporter, The Y Tu Mama Tambien; Importance of Being
Earnest, The; Hire: Beat the Devil, The [short]; Hire: Hostage, The
[short]; Hire: Ticker, The [short];
<b>Meh: </b>25th Hour; 8 Mile; Austin Powers in Goldmember; Blood Work;
Count of Monte Cristo, The; Death to Smoochy; Die Another Day; Dragonfly;
Four Feathers, The; Hart's War; Hours, The; Ice Age; Jackass: The Movie;
John Q.; K-19: The Widowmaker; Lilo & Stich; Men in Black II; Mothman
Prophecies, The; My Big Fat Greek Wedding; Narc; Orange County; Red Dragon;
Russian Ark; Simone; Solaris; Spider-Man; Sum of All Fears, The; Super
Troopers; Treasure Planet; Two Weeks Notice; Unfaithful; Walk to Remember,
A; We Were Soldiers; Chubbchubbs!, The [short]; Frankenthumb [short]; Blair
Thumb, The [short];
<b>Garbage: </b>Blade II; Collateral Damage; Comedian; Jonah: A VeggieTales
Movie; Master of Disguise, The; Swimfan; Reign of Fire; Star Wars: Episode
II - Attack of the Clones; Sweet Home Alabama; Time Machine, The; XXX;
Winter Break;
<h2>2003</h2>
<i>65 films seen: 62 feature-length, 3 short</i><ol>
<li>Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The
<li>Lost in Translation
<li>Finding Nemo
<li>American Splendor
<li>Monster
<li>In America
<li>Mystic River
<li>Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
<li>City of God
<li>Dogville</ol>
<b>Also Recommended: </b>Swimming Pool; 21 Grams; 28 Days Later; Bad Santa;
Big Fish; Bruce Almighty; Bubba Ho-Tep; Capturing the Freidmans;
Spellbound; Cold Mountain; Dirty Pretty Things; Identity; Italian Job; Kill
Bill Vol. 1; Last Samurai, The; Master and Commander: The Far Side of the
World; Matchstick Men; Matrix Reloaded, The; Old School; Open Range; Osama;
School of Rock; Seabiscuit; Secondhand Lions; Shattered Glass; Something's
Gotta Give; Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines; Texas Chainsaw Massacre;
Whale Rider; X2: X-Men United; Snow Walker, The; Batman: Dead End [short];
<b>Meh: </b>Freaky Friday; Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West [short];
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman; City of No Limits, The; Dreamers, The;
DysFunktional Family; Elf; House of Sand and Fog; Intolerable Cruelty;
Matrix Revolutions; Phone Booth; Ripley's Game; Runaway Jury; Shanghai
Knights; Tears of the Sun; Boundin' [short];
<b>Garbage: </b>Bringing Down the House; Gothika; Hunted, The; Hulk; Scary
Movie 3; Peter Pan;
Graham Mayor and Greg Maxey. At the bottom of the document I have included
a larger excerpt from the full document.
----
(; )(<*)[,] (The) \(
Replace with
\1\3 \2\4 (
----
This, obviously, does not work because only a small portion of the document
actually uses parenthetical year clarifications (only the first two
'sections' concern multiple years). Sorry I did not include a more
representative excerpt of the full document earlier.
----
;([!;,]{1,}),( The)
Replace:
;\2\1
----
The problem here is that because every movie title is 'closed' with a
semicolon, but not always 'opened,' it jumps across lines to grab:
;
<b>Meh: </b>Boxing Cats, The (1894)
when it should only grab:
Boxing Cats, The (1984);
Naturally, I have no problem running multiple find and replace actions
through the document to work on this, so more specific is better than more
general.
Is there a way to designate line breaks in find and replace to avoid some
of the problems with the above examples?
Or, because every movie title is closed with a semicolon, but not every
movie title is immediately preceded by a semicolon, perhaps it would be
better to try to find movie titles by looking for a closing semicolon and
an opening (; OR >)?
Perhaps seperate routines could be written to first fix the ones that fall
between two semicolons (but not across line breaks), then those between a >
and a semicolon?
Thank you, Greg Mayor, for the link to the article on your site. I'm still
churning it through my mind, trying to get it right.
--------------------------EXCERPT--------------------------
Rankings and recommendations consider only the merits of the film, not
historical importance, rarely technical innovation, and are much more based
on 'best films in my opinion' than 'films I most enjoyed watching.' Movies
in 'Also Recommended,' 'Meh,' and 'Garbage' are in no particular order. It
may be useful to <a
href="http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.12794/b_show_new.1">highlight
recent changes</a>.
<br>
<h2>1890-1909 (all shorts)</h2>
<i>55 films seen: 0 feature-length, 55 short</i><ol>
<li>Great Train Robbery, The (1903)
<li>Trip to the Moon, A (1902)
<li>Impossible Voyage, The (1904)
<li>Policemen's Little Run, The (1906)
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)</ol>
<b>Also Recommended: </b>Annabelle Butterfly Dance (1894); Snowball Fight
(1896); Sprinkler Sprinkled, The (1896); Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
(1906);
<b>Meh: </b>Boxing Cats, The (1894); Leonard-Cushing Fight (1894); Edison
Kinetoscopic Record Of A Sneeze (1894); Sioux Ghost Dance (1894); Annabelle
Butterfly Dance (1894); Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) (1894); Exiting the
Factory; Baby's Dinner (1895); Lion, London Zoological Gardens (1895);
Transformation By Hats (1895); Demolition of a Wall (1896); Poultry-Yard
(1896); Cock Fight (1896); Kiss, The (1896); Babies Quarrel (1896);
Promenade of Ostriches, Paris Botanical Gardens (1896); Card Party (1897);
Sky Scrapers of New York City from North River (1903); Trapeze Disrobing
Act (1901); Cook in Trouble, The (1904); Tchin-Tao: The Chinese Conjurer
(1904); Wonderful Living Fan, The (1904); Black Imp, The (1905); Hilarious
Posters, The (1905); Living Playing Cards, The (1905); San Francisco:
Aftermath of Earthquake (1906); Eclipse, The (1907); Troubles of a
Grasswidower (1908); Moscow Clad in Snow (1908); Dog and His Various
Merits, The (1908); Nero (1909);
<b>Garbage: </b>Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896); Carmaux: Drawing
Out the Coke (1896); Feeding the Doves (1896); Sandow (1896); New York,
Broadway at Union Score (1896); Dragoons Crossing the Saone (1896);
President McKinley at Home (1897); Seminary Girls (1897); Pack Train at
Chilkoot Pass (1898); Untamable Whiskers, The (1904); Enchanted Sedan
Chair, The (1905); Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog, The (1905); Scheming
Gambler's Paradise, The (1905); Mysterious Retort, The (1906); Good Glue
Sticks (1907); Long Distance Wireless Photography (1908);
<h2>1910-1919</h2>
<i>20 films seen: 4 feature-length, 16 short</i><ol>
<li>Birth of a Nation, The (1915)
<li>Broken Blossoms (1919)
<li>Immigrant, The (1917) [short]
<li>Easy Street (1917) [short]
<li>Rink, The (1916) [short]
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)</ol>
<b>Also Recommended: </b>Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y.
Herald and His Moving Comics (1911) [short]; Cameraman's Revenge, The
(1912) [short]; Pool Sharks (1915) [short]; Tramp, The (1915) [short];
Champion, The (1915) [short]; Ask Father (1919) [short];
<b>Meh: </b>Last Days of Pompeii, The (1913); Intolerance (1916); For His
Son (1912) [short]; Aeroplane Flight and Wreck (Piloted by M. Cody) (1910)
[short]; Girl and Her Trust, The (1912) [short]; Bangville Police (1913)
[short]; By the Sea (1915) [short]; Butcher Boy, The (1917) [short];
Adventurer, The (1917) [short];
<b>Garbage: </b>
<h2>2002</h2>
<i>83 films seen: 77 feature-length, 6 short</i><ol>
<li>Adaptation
<li>Frailty
<li>Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The
<li>About a Boy
<li>Insomnia
<li>Panic Room
<li>Bowling for Columbine
<li>Gangs of New York
<li>(none yet)
<li>(none yet)</ol>
<b>Also Recommended: </b>About Schmidt; Bend It Like Beckham; Bourne
Identity, The; Catch Me If You Can; Changing Lanes; Confessions of a
Dangerous Mind; Dogtown and Z-Boys; Equilibrium; Igby Goes Down; One Hour
Photo; Irreversible; Lost In La Mancha; Minority Report; Pianist, The;
Punch-Drunk Love; Ring, The; Road to Perdition; Secretary; Signs; Spirited
Away; Talk to Her; Transporter, The Y Tu Mama Tambien; Importance of Being
Earnest, The; Hire: Beat the Devil, The [short]; Hire: Hostage, The
[short]; Hire: Ticker, The [short];
<b>Meh: </b>25th Hour; 8 Mile; Austin Powers in Goldmember; Blood Work;
Count of Monte Cristo, The; Death to Smoochy; Die Another Day; Dragonfly;
Four Feathers, The; Hart's War; Hours, The; Ice Age; Jackass: The Movie;
John Q.; K-19: The Widowmaker; Lilo & Stich; Men in Black II; Mothman
Prophecies, The; My Big Fat Greek Wedding; Narc; Orange County; Red Dragon;
Russian Ark; Simone; Solaris; Spider-Man; Sum of All Fears, The; Super
Troopers; Treasure Planet; Two Weeks Notice; Unfaithful; Walk to Remember,
A; We Were Soldiers; Chubbchubbs!, The [short]; Frankenthumb [short]; Blair
Thumb, The [short];
<b>Garbage: </b>Blade II; Collateral Damage; Comedian; Jonah: A VeggieTales
Movie; Master of Disguise, The; Swimfan; Reign of Fire; Star Wars: Episode
II - Attack of the Clones; Sweet Home Alabama; Time Machine, The; XXX;
Winter Break;
<h2>2003</h2>
<i>65 films seen: 62 feature-length, 3 short</i><ol>
<li>Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The
<li>Lost in Translation
<li>Finding Nemo
<li>American Splendor
<li>Monster
<li>In America
<li>Mystic River
<li>Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
<li>City of God
<li>Dogville</ol>
<b>Also Recommended: </b>Swimming Pool; 21 Grams; 28 Days Later; Bad Santa;
Big Fish; Bruce Almighty; Bubba Ho-Tep; Capturing the Freidmans;
Spellbound; Cold Mountain; Dirty Pretty Things; Identity; Italian Job; Kill
Bill Vol. 1; Last Samurai, The; Master and Commander: The Far Side of the
World; Matchstick Men; Matrix Reloaded, The; Old School; Open Range; Osama;
School of Rock; Seabiscuit; Secondhand Lions; Shattered Glass; Something's
Gotta Give; Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines; Texas Chainsaw Massacre;
Whale Rider; X2: X-Men United; Snow Walker, The; Batman: Dead End [short];
<b>Meh: </b>Freaky Friday; Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West [short];
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman; City of No Limits, The; Dreamers, The;
DysFunktional Family; Elf; House of Sand and Fog; Intolerable Cruelty;
Matrix Revolutions; Phone Booth; Ripley's Game; Runaway Jury; Shanghai
Knights; Tears of the Sun; Boundin' [short];
<b>Garbage: </b>Bringing Down the House; Gothika; Hunted, The; Hulk; Scary
Movie 3; Peter Pan;
