replace_incomplete: Denote Incomplete End Marks With "|"

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Denote Incomplete End Marks With "|"

Description

Replaces incomplete sentence end marks (.., ..., .?, ..?, en & em dash etc.) with "|".

Usage

replace_incomplete(x, replacement = "|", ...)

Arguments

x	The text variable.
replacement	A string to replace incomplete punctuation marks with.
...	ignored.

Value

Returns a text variable (character sting) with incomplete sentence marks (.., ..., .?, ..?, en & em dash etc.) replaced with "|".

Examples

x <- c("the...",  "I.?", "you.", "threw..", "we?")
replace_incomplete(x)
replace_incomplete(x, '...')

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