I am trying to use looping to indent paragraphs in a file. So I need to insert blanks at the beginning of each paragraph, to do so I will need to know where the paragraph starts and it says that there is a blank before each paragraph. I need to know how do I tell the program to find those blank lines.
Please help!
Thanks
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If you're having trouble figuring out the code, start with your logic. Describe in plain english your logic in indenting paragraphs. As if you were explaining to another human being. But be very precise.
If you're having trouble figuring out the code, start with your logic. Describe in plain english your logic in indenting paragraphs. As if you were explaining to another human being. But be very precise.
that's what I did in my algorithm, "find the end or a paragraph or find a blink line" but what I don't know is a code for finding the blank lines or maybe the end of a paragraph
oler1s 671
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Really. So if I type in a few paragraphs, and I found the end of a paragraph, all the paragraphs would suddenly become indented? Forget about code. Just forget about it. You need to get a realistic algorithm. Every step. In plain english. I give you a bunch of paragraphs, don't just say find a paragraph. What is a paragraph? What do you mean by find? Break it down into very basic steps. You can't hope to code something you can't even describe in plain words.
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Heya, bigpaco.
You're saying that you know a paragraph because the line directly before it will be empty. Is that correct?
For example: -
Is this a paragraph? It's the first line in the string.
-
-
This is a paragraph because the line above it is blank, but
-
this is not a paragraph because the line above it is not blank.
Heya, bigpaco.
You're saying that you know a paragraph because the line directly before it will be empty. Is that correct?
For example:
-
Is this a paragraph? It's the first line in the string.
-
-
This is a paragraph because the line above it is blank, but
-
this is not a paragraph because the line above it is not blank.
Yes that right before each paragraph there is a blank line
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