- new parameter accepted for splt family transforms splt/spl2/spl5/spl7/spl8/spl9/sp10
- (splt transforms are the string parsing functions which identify character overlaps between unique entries in a categorical set)
- 'space_and_punctuation' parameter can be passed as True/False, defaults to True
- when passed as False, character overlaps are only recorded when excluding space and punctuation characters in their composition
- based on the space and punctuation characters [' ', ',', '.', '?', '!', '(', ')']
- as an example, when using spl9 function to evaluate a set with unique entries {'North Florida', Central Florida', 'South Florida', 'The Keys'}, if this parameter set as default of True, the returned set would have unique entries {'th Florida', 'Central Florida', 'The Keys'}
- if this parameter passed as False, the returned set would instead have unique entries {'Florida', 'The Keys'}