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I want to be able to remove the auto-generated full stop at the end of each of my bibliography items.

This is what I get when running the code included below:

Bibliography output

I would like to not have those full stops at the end of each line.

I have tried using \gobbledot as specified in the accepted answer for this question but I get the error:

! Use of \gobbledot doesn't match its definition.
\blx@theformat #1->#1\isdot

Working example below.

Main file:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,oneside]{memoir}
\usepackage[block=par,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\addbibresource{bibliography}

\begin{document}
Hi, I am an example ~\cite{jez}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Bib file:

@misc{ jez,
    title = {What is Continous Delivery - Continous Delivery},
    howpublished = {\url{www.continuousdelivery.com}},
    note = {Retrieved 01/05/2019}
}

These files have been massively abbreviated for clarity. But they result in the image shown above, which shows the same issue.

EDIT:
After implementing @moewe 's answer. My bibliograpy looks like this: Bibliography after answer implemented

Dom
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    \renewcommand*{\finentrypunct}{}. See also https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/187443/35864 – moewe May 09 '19 at 12:09
  • @moewe That removes the fullstop for the date (note), but not for the link or the title. I would like to remove the fullstop for all three if possible – Dom May 09 '19 at 12:11
  • The \gobbledot trick is only a sly workaround for BIbTeX-generated bibliographies, it is quite unlikely to work with biblatex. Note that biblatex knows the url and urldate fields, so you could say: url = {http://www.continuousdelivery.com}, urldate = {2019-05-01}, instead of the using howpublished/note workaround for old BibTeX styles. example ~\cite{jez} has one space too much, you probably want example~\cite{jez} or example \cite{jez}, but not both. – moewe May 09 '19 at 12:12
  • \renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addspace}? – moewe May 09 '19 at 12:13
  • @moewe Using the url and urldate fields and also \renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addspace} removes the dot from the name and leaves one after the date (which I don't care about). Thank you :) I will set this as solved – Dom May 09 '19 at 12:16

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If you only want to get rid of the last period (the one at the end), see How to remove the full stop at the end of each bibliography entry?.

Getting rid of all periods at line breaks is a bit tricker. As a first approximation

\renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addspace}

should do the right thing most of the time.

As mentioned in the comments, since you are using biblatex you may want to consider using the dedicated fields url and urldate instead of the howpublished/note workaround for older BibTeX styles. You can also use the type @online instead of @misc

@online{jez,
  title   = {What is Continous Delivery -- Continous Delivery},
  url     = {http://www.continuousdelivery.com},
  urldate = {2019-05-01},
}

Instead of

 example ~\cite{jez}

you probably want

 example~\cite{jez}

or example \cite{jez}, but not both a space and ~.

moewe
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