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This is an attempt at a regular expression that will hopefully match the headers and footers that are included at the beginning of txt formatted ebooks hosted on Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/). The intent is that any expressions matching this regex might be safely replaced with an empty string before computationally processing the…
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gutenberg_regex
((\b(Project Gutenberg's)|(The Project Gutenberg EBook))[\s\S]+?\*{3}[\s\S]+?\*{3}(\s+?[pP]roduced by.+))|(([/bEe][nD][dD] of.+?[Pp]roject [Gg]utenberg[\s\S]+?)?\*{3}\s[eE][nN][dD].+?\*{3}[\s\S]*)
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